Waking the Tiger

So he wrote that book.

All I know that he's written off the top of my head is Waking the Tiger.

Yeah.

I feel like we talked about this when we had coffee last month.

That was pushing in kind of more emotional trauma processing sort of stuff?

Yeah, it was like doing a version of like Peter Levine's Waking the Tiger, but not like a real version of it.

What are some things that you did in exposure and response prevention that was particularly helpful?

We wrote the word vomit so many

Oh, wow.

There's a chapter, um, by a somatic therapist named Dr. Peter Levine in his book, Waking the Tiger.

I've heard of him.

Yeah.

His book is called Waking the Tiger.

One of his books is called Waking the Tiger, and there's a chapter called Why Animals Don't Get PTSD.

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And it describes, [laughs] it describes this exact idea of shaking to release the stress, to release the trauma right after the incident happens, and then you're no longer holding that tension in your shoulders or gripping your jaw or whatnot.