The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life

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In 1944, Edith Eger was just a teenager when she experienced one of the worst evils the human race has ever known.

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Today’s episode shares the story of one woman’s resilience, strength, determination and ability to create hope from hopelessness. She has a clinical practice in La Jolla, California, and she holds a faculty appointment at the University of California, San Diego.We’re going to be affected by environmental and genetic factors over which we have little or no control. Filled with empathy, insight, and humor, The Giftcaptures 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. After being sent to Auschwitz at only 16 years old and barely surviving the Holocaust, she made it her life’s work to help other people heal and free themselves from the prison of their own negative thoughts. One of those rare and eternal stories that you don't want to end and that leave you forever changed. Find a local or online meeting where you will be in the company of people who can relate to and empathize with your experience.

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As Elizabeth Kubler Ross noted, ‘the most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss and have found their way out of the depths. Edith Eger was 16 years old when her family was uprooted from their home in Hungary and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. But if you’ve been taught to be a “good girl” or a “good boy,” taught that anger is unacceptable or frightening, if you’ve been hurt by someone else’s rage, it isn’t easy to let yourself feel—much less express— your anger.But if you’re trying to prove that you’re right or you’re good, you’re trying to make yourself into something that doesn’t exist. Accompanied by stories from Eger’s own life and the lives of her patients each chapter includes thought-provoking questions and takeaways. But when we stop fighting and resisting, we have more energy and imagination to move forward, instead of nowhere.

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Eger talks about the 12 physiological lessons she shares in The Gift, and how to shift your mindset from being a victim to becoming empowered.Although I have a very different story to Dr Eger's, I also recognised that I had a choice in how I respond to what was done to me and how I want to live my life. If adults create a home environment where anger isn’t allowed to be expressed, or where anger is vented in harmful ways, children learn that strong feelings aren’t permissible or safe. Eger’s life reveals our capacity to transcend even the greatest of horrors and to use that suffering for the benefit of others.