The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life

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I earned my doctorate in clinical psychology in 1978 and I’ve been treating patients in a therapeutic setting for over forty years. Edie spent decades struggling with flashbacks and survivor’s guilt, determined to stay silent and hide from the past. It’s very dangerous to put your whole life into someone else’s hands, she said: “Your life doesn’t depend on what you get or don’t get from someone else. And you can concentrate not on what you lost, but on what is left: the choice to live every moment as a gift, to embrace what is. In her new book The Gift she shares some of her best advice for confronting life’s challenges and building a meaningful existence.

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Using her own past as a Holocaust survivor and thriver as a powerful analogy, she inspires people to tap their full potential and shape their very best destinies. We discuss the power of the human mind, the end of our childhoods, and the transcendent nature of forgiveness. Drawing on her incredible story and experience as a celebrated therapist, she shares valuable life lessons to heal and inspire so that we too can break free from whatever's holding us back.Edie is one of the most inspiring people that I have ever met, and her advice about healing from trauma, finding your purpose, and learning to forgive is life-changing. You can’t predict who might show up to cause harm—yell an insult, throw a punch, break a promise, betray your trust, drop a bomb, start a war.

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When devoting time to someone or something, ask yourself: Is this going to empower me or deplete me? The next time you hear yourself using the language of minimization, delusion, or denial, try replacing the words with: ‘It hurts.

This is the first tool for moving out of victimhood: approach whatever is happening with a gentle embrace. But when we stop fighting and resisting, we have more energy and imagination to move forward, instead of nowhere.

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If there’s some part of yourself you routinely resent or criticize, imagine yourself being very little, so tiny you can crawl inside your body and say hello to each of your organs, to each part of yourself. Eger credits her survival to her mother’s parting words of advice on a filthy cattle truck bound for Auschwitz. Edith "Edie" Eger was 16, she watched as her parents were led to a gas chamber at Auschwitz, the largest concentration camp run by the Nazis during the Second World War. Denying your grief won’t help you heal—nor will it help to spend more time with the dead than you do with the living. She describes the twelve most pervasive imprisoning beliefs she has known—including fear, grief, anger, secrets, stress, guilt, shame, and avoidance—and the tools she has discovered to deal with these universal challenges.We take too much responsibility for others’ problems, training them to rely on us instead of on themselves, and paving our own way toward resentment down the road. Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent. She lives in La Jolla, California, and is the author of the bestselling and award-winning books The Choiceand The Gift. So I got the opportunity of having an online conversation with Edith Eva Eger herself – the therapist who, at 90, published her first book, who survived the Holocaust, who took her life in her own hands and chose love instead of suffering. with similar struggles, where you can care for each other and commit yourselves to something bigger than yourselves.

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I stop focusing on why this bad thing happened—or is happening—and start paying attention to what I can do with my experience. I’m so excited and proud of my daughter Audrey Eger Thompson and her business partner Andreas Phileas Neumann for the work they are bringing to the world.Edith Eger speaks about “The Gift,” her book that mentions grief as a force for positive change, inspired by her story surviving the Auschwitz concentration camp, and her healing process from the trauma.