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The gift : 12 lessons to save your life / Edith Eger ; with Esmé Schwall Weigand.

Eger, Edith Eva, (author.). Weigand, Esmé Schwall, (author.).

Summary:

The author draws on her experiences as a Holocaust survivor, as well as the lives of her patients, to offer practical, uplifting advice about how to recognize and stop destructive, self-sabotaging patterns to find freedom and greater life fulfillment.

Edith Eger's powerful first book The Choice told the story of her survival in the concentration camps, her escape, healing, and journey to freedom. Oprah Winfrey says, "I will be forever changed by Dr. Eger's story." Thousands of people around the world have written to Eger to tell her how The Choice moved them and inspired them to confront their own past and try to heal their pain; and to ask her to write another, more "how-to" book. Now, in The Gift, Eger expands on her message of healing and provides a hands-on guide that gently encourages us to change the thoughts and behaviors that may be keeping us imprisoned in the past.

Record details

ISBN: 9781982143091
ISBN: 1982143096
Physical Description: 195 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2020.
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Unlocking our mental prisons -- What now?: victimhood -- No prozac at Auschwitz: avoidance -- All other relationships will end: self-neglect -- One butt, two chairs: secrets -- No one rejects you but you: guilt and shame -- What didn't happen: unresolved grief -- Nothing to prove: rigidity -- Would you like to be married to you?: resentment -- Are you evolving or revolving?: paralyzing fear -- The Nazi in you: judgment -- If I survive today, tomorrow I will be free: hopelessness -- There's no forgiveness without rage: not forgiving -- Conclusion: The gift.