

1010 Healing, Forgiveness & Finding Freedom w/Holocaust Survivor Dr. Edith Eger
Sep 23, 2020
Dr. Edith Eger, a Holocaust survivor and acclaimed clinical psychologist, shares her incredible journey of resilience and personal transformation. She discusses how she views her captors as more imprisoned than herself. The conversation emphasizes the importance of forgiveness, the power of perspective in healing, and the need to reclaim one's identity beyond trauma. With insights drawn from her experience, Dr. Eger inspires listeners to confront past pains and embrace hope, encouraging a life defined by choice and meaning.
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Auschwitz Experience
- Edith Eger, at 16, was sent to Auschwitz, losing her parents.
- Despite the horrors, she never lost hope, viewing Auschwitz as a classroom for inner resource discovery.
Auschwitz: A Classroom
- People reacted to Auschwitz's stress in different ways; some fought, some fled, others found inner strength.
- Eger learned to see her Nazi guards as imprisoned by their own brainwashing.
Dissolving Anger
- Dissolve anger instead of venting or suppressing it.
- Commit to others, moving beyond self-focus, as Eger did with her sister in Auschwitz.