Nominated for the Skroutz Book Awards 2025.

“Waking the Tiger” deals with the subject of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder. In this topic, perhaps more than anywhere else, the need to understand the fundamental role our physiology plays in healing is evident.

The tiger represents the instinctive (or reptilian) brain. The one that holds the key to our survival as a species. The one that, when ignored or misinterpreted by our rational brain, causes a multitude of dysfunctions. The one that, on the contrary, when it cooperates, becomes the source of our health and our good physical and mental functioning.