Waking the Tiger provides a fresh and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human pet as a unique becoming, endowed with an instinctual capability. It asks and answers an interesting question: What makes animals in the open, though threatened consistently, seldom traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to distressing symptoms, the secret of human stress is revealed.

Waking the Tiger normalizes the symptoms of trauma and the steps needed to cure them. People are often traumatized by seemingly ordinary experiences. The listener is certainly taken on the guided tour of the simple, yet effective impulses that govern our replies to overwhelming existence events. To do this, it employs a series of exercises that help us focus on bodily feelings. Through heightened awareness of these sensations trauma can be healed.