The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life

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Edith Eger brings her own life experiences as a survivor of Auschwit.z. We get some great tips in this intriguing story. It's full of wisdom and compassion. The book is well written and easy to understand. There's stories from other survivors of various events. Edith has lots life experiences. It teaches us new techniques to change how we are feeling/reacting/behaving. Everybody could learn something from reading this well written book about mental health and self care. You’re either contributing to the relationship or you’re contaminating it,’ I said. ‘How do each of you contaminate the marriage?’” When you turn the other cheek, you look at the same thing from a new perspective. You can’t change the situation, you can’t change someone else’s mind, but you can look at reality differently. You can accept and integrate multiple points of view. This flexibility”

The Gift: 14 Lessons to Save Your Life by Edith Eger - Goodreads The Gift: 14 Lessons to Save Your Life by Edith Eger - Goodreads

Dr. Edith Eva Eger is my kind of hero. She survived unspeakable horrors and brutality; but rather than let her painful past destroy her, she chose to transform it into a powerful gift – one she uses to help others heal.” Dr. Eger shares the horrors of life at Auschwitz along with personal stories of struggles from her clients in an effort to help others heal from every day challenges we all face. It is such a hopeful book and provides inspiration even in the darkest of times. Dr. Eger really makes you feel like you can beat the worst of odds because she has done it herself!! She will discuss techniques to help you break out of your personal prison and find freedom to live your best life, no matter what your past experiences were. Throughout the whole book, all I kept saying to myself is, I can't believe that Dr. Eger could have had a past like she did and still be so positive and encouraging to others today! I am humbled by her strength and tenacity to not let her past define who she is, but instead Use it to make her stronger and more engaged in life! When Edith was sixteen, she and her family were sent to Auschwitz. She is a psychologist and wrote this book when she was 92. Here is what she wrote: Internationally acclaimed psychologist Dr. Edith Eger—one of the last remaining Holocaust survivors—tells her unforgettable story in this moving testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of choice in our lives.My mom told me in the car … she had me, and she said, ‘We don’t know where we’re going. We don’t know what’s waiting for us. Just remember: No one can take away from you what you put in your own mind.’ And that’s exactly what happened. Everything was taken away from me, [but] I still had my mind and my sister.”– Dr. Edith Eger We talk about how to maintain faith despite any horrible situation, finding forgiveness, redefining who you are as a person despite your past and maintaining your sanity and controlling your emotions during times of distress. We also discuss why you can’t heal what you don’t feel and why she needed to return to Auschwitz to heal from her past and much more! How to Break Free From Your Mental Prisons, With Psychologist Dr. Edith Eger– This week we’re breaking free from our mental prisons of victimhood, fear, and hopelessness with help from psychologist and Holocaust survivor Dr. Edith Eger. Listen to hear Dr. Eger talk with Jordan and Alice about how our thoughts create our feelings,and how changing the language of your thoughts can lead you to a more take-charge approach to life. Eger’s new book, “ The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life,” offers wisdom on resilience, grief and finding hope in the darkest times.

The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life: Edith Eva Eger The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life: Edith Eva Eger

After liberation, Dr. Edie struggled with the feeling that she had no meaning in life. She went through an existential crisis and was even suicidal. She knew her parents were not coming home. Her boyfriend from before she went to Auschwitz was shot a day before liberation. Even though she was no longer in the camp, her mind now found itself in a prison. I asked Dr. Edie what advice she had for anyone who’s experienced trauma, and she broke the healing process into a three-step process: We don’t have to like the difficult or painful things that happen to us. But when we stop fighting and resisting, we have more energy and imagination to move forward, instead of nowhere. Just be you — [a] one of a kind, unique, authentic person that never ever was in a million years before or after you. That’s really something to wow about.”– Dr. Edith Eger We can’t take away suffering, we can’t change what happened—but we can choose to find the gift in our lives. We can even learn to cherish the wound.

Don’t ask your partner stupid questions like, “How are you?” because they are going to say “fine,” even if they’re not fine. Instead, make a statement. “Good to see you,” “I missed you.” And then you have good sex. Hearing this strong little woman tell her story made me think my problems are tiny by comparison. If she could make it, so can all of us. Her close brushes with death and disaster have prompted her to get stronger and eventually help others. She as a lot in common with Victor Frankl and his book Man's Search For Meaning. With people today still doubting that the holocaust ever happened, and with fear, anxiety, and hatred raising their ugly heads as people look for others to blame for their problems, books like this are essential. I recommend both The Choice and The Gift very strongly. Dr Eger’s Online Courses. Join Dr. Eger on a life-changing journey with her online masterclasses in emotional self-healing. Find your life’s purpose & experience the power of forgiveness. Learn more. Conflict is human. When we avoid conflict, we’re actually moving closer to tyranny than to peace. Conflict itself isn’t imprisoning. What keeps us trapped is the rigid thinking we often use to manage conflict.

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That is so powerful. I’m sure we all have been hurt by people in the past, who have done some severe damage, but rather than suppressing the rage, we need to embrace it. We need to feel the full extent of it until we can finally let it go. And when we do choose to let it go, we are giving ourselves the gift of freedom. April 8 is a Day of Remembrance for victims of the Holocaust. Dr. 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. A powerful, moving memoir–and a practical guide to healing–written by Dr. Edith Eva Eger, an eminent psychologist whose own experiences as a Holocaust survivor help her treat patients and allow them to escape the prisons of their own minds. #TheChoice thechoicememoir.comListen to learn all about her awe inspiring resilience and how she found hope in the darkest of places. To free yourself from the prison, pay attention to your language. Listen for the I can’t, the I’m trying, the I need to, and then see if you can replace these imprisoning phrases with something else: I can, I want, I’m willing, I choose. This is the language that empowers us to change.” Harness your freedom to. Make a vision board—a visual representation of what you want to create or embrace in your life. Cut out pictures and words from magazines, old calendars, etc.—there are no rules, just see what attracts you. Filled with empathy, insight, and humor, The Gift captures the vulnerability and common challenges we all face and provides encouragement and advice for breaking out of our personal prisons to find healing and enjoy life. The Choice is a gift to humanity. One of those rare and eternal stories that you don't want to end and that leave you forever changed. Dr. Eger's life reveals our capacity to transcend even the greatest of horrors and to use that suffering for the benefit of others. She has found true freedom and forgiveness and shows us how we can as well."