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The Auschwitz Survivor Who Chose Freedom | Dr. Edith Eger

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Dr. Edith Eger was 16 years old when she danced for Josef Mengele at Auschwitz the same night her mother was sent to the gas chamber. She survived. And then she spent decades running from what happened until she finally turned around and walked straight back into it.

What she found there changed everything.

Edith teaches that freedom is not something that happens to you. It is something you choose. Again and again. By becoming your own good parent, facing what you have been carrying, and giving yourself permission to let go.

Anger is not the primary emotion, she says. Underneath it is always fear. And underneath fear is a little child who just needs someone to show up.

This conversation will rearrange something inside you. It is not about forgetting. It is not about overcoming. It is about learning to cherish the wound, and using it to become more alive.

Dr. Edith’s website

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Dr. Edith’s courses

Dr. Edith’s books:

  • The Choice: Embrace the Possible
  • The Gift: 14 Lessons to Save Your Life
  • The Ballerina of Auschwitz: Young Adult Edition of The Choice

    • In this episode you will:

    • Discover why the key to your freedom is already in your pocket, even if you have been in your own mental prison for years
    • Learn how to turn depression into expression by facing the rage you have been running from instead of medicating or analyzing it
    • Understand the critical difference between being a victim and being victimized, and why one destroys your potential while the other leaves your power intact
    • Find out how to stop living for other people's approval by becoming the loving parent to yourself that you may have never had
    • Reclaim the joy and passion you thought you lost by asking one simple question about everything you do

      • For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1922

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