I didn't know whether I take a shower, whether a water or gas is going to come out. They could throw me in a gas chamber any minute. And this is where we are now with the COVID. We don't know that we don't know. Really, we don't have any guarantee. You got to give up your need for approval of others if you want to be free. Most of all, you give up being a perfectionist. When you are a perfectionist, you procrastinate. Yeah. Which one I feed? All people who come to me are hungry. That's why diagnosis. Hungry for affection, hungry for attention, hungry for approval.
Dr. Edith Eger is a Holocaust survivor who went on to graduate with a PhD from the University of Texas. She is a prolific author and maintains a busy clinical psychology practice. She is also frequently invited to speaking engagements around the world. Eric and Dr. Eger discuss her book, The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life
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In This Interview, Dr. Edith Eger and I Discuss Life Lessons and…
- Her book, The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your LifeI
- If you don’t love yourself, you can’t love others
- How she views her experience in Auschwitz as an opportunity for discovering her inner strength
- The prison of victimhood
- Looking at things from different perspectives
- How we are hungry for affection, attention, and approval
- The opposite of depression is expression
- The prisons of guilt and shame
- The prison of judgment
- Having spiritual freedom
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