224: Celebrate the Gift of Life with Holocaust Survivor Dr. Edith Eger
The Marie Forleo Podcast
Marie Forleo
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Edith Eva Eger is one of our favorite MarieTV guests of all time. In this uplifting interview, she shares the miraculous lessons she learned as a Holocaust survivor imprisoned in Auschwitz, and how we can all choose hope and compassion over suffering and anger every single day.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey it's Marie Forleo and welcome to another episode of Marie TV and the Marie Forleo |
| 0:08.2 | podcast. Today may be one of my favorite interviews of all time. |
| 0:14.6 | I will share the guests with you in just a moment, |
| 0:16.7 | but I will tell you it is about this book that's called |
| 0:19.9 | The Gift 12 Lessons to Save Your Life. This is a must watch, must listen, and must share. |
| 0:28.6 | Dr. Edith Eager is an eminent psychologist, world-renowned PTSD expert and a survivor of the Holocaust. |
| 0:36.8 | She's worked with countless individuals who've suffered physical and mental trauma. |
| 0:42.0 | Her work helps us understand that our circumstances don't define our |
| 0:46.2 | identity and that not being a victim is a choice we must make every day. |
| 0:53.0 | She's the author of the award-winning book, The Choice, |
| 0:56.0 | and her latest book, The Gift. |
| 0:59.0 | Twelve lessons to save your life is available now. |
| 1:09.7 | Edi, it is so wonderful to be with you today. Thank you so much for the privilege of your time. |
| 1:12.0 | It's very mutual. I was waiting to meet you. You're quite a girl. A woman of strength. |
| 1:19.0 | A woman of strength. |
| 1:21.0 | As are you, which is exactly what we're going to talk about. Let's start at the beginning. In the introduction, you shared, I learned how to live in a death camp. I'm wondering if you can take us back to |
| 1:34.0 | 1944 when you were a 16 year old gymnast and a dancer and your family had some visitors on that day. |
| 1:45.0 | It was a total surprise when I saw the sign, |
| 1:50.0 | Arbert Macht Frye. And my father said, |
| 1:55.0 | it's okay, we're just gonna work and then we go home. |
| 1:59.0 | And it was chaos, we didn when we were totally separated and then I found myself at the end of the line holding my mom on one end and my sister on other. |
| 2:19.0 | And this guy said, is this your mother or is this your mother or your sister? |
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