Back in March 1944, Edith Eger was only 16 when her father was arrested and sent to a labor camp. A month later, she, her mother, and her sister were sent into the Kosice Ghetto. All three were taken to Auschwitz in May.
Their first day at the camp is also the day when their mother was killed in the gas chamber. During one of her most recent interviews, Edith mentions that as they arrived at the camp she was asked if the woman near her is her mother or her sister. She said the truth, that it was her mom, and that was the moment when the guard pointed to the mother and asked her to join the other group.
After the liberation, Edith lived in Czechoslovakia for a couple of years, got married, had a daughter, and left for the USA. When she was 40 years old, she went to the university, studied Psychology, completed a Ph.D., and became a clinical psychologist focused on treating people with post-traumatic stress disorder. It was through her work that she also continued her healing process.
Back in 2017, Edith Eger published her first book entitled The Choice – Embrace the Possible, and last September, she published her second book, The Gift – 12 lessons to Save Your Life. In this one, she describes 12 types of difficulties that we encounter in our lives. She calls them prisons because they are holding us from living and enjoying our life.
I added them here together with one of the proposed activities mentioned in her book.
Title: The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life
Details: Dr. Edith Eva Eger, Scribner, 2020, $13.84 (208p)
ISBN: 978-1982143091
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