Dirk Marcelis

Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: Why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed.

In I'm Not Dead Yet, Joey Lott explains the way in which any one of us can take the painful experience of chronic illness and, within it, discover an incredible gift that can free us from all of the anxiety and fear and hopelessness of the past. In learning to both face up to and accept whatever experience, however horrible, comes our way, we can find a true freedom and peace inside our hearts. Without the resistance to experiences, we are free to live an unburdened life with all the myriad of benefits it entails.