55. How suffering makes you stronger with Holocaust survivor Dr. Edith Eger
All The Wiser
Kimi Culp
4.8 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
With so many losing so much during the pandemic, how should we think about the nature of suffering? Holocaust survivor and psychologist Dr. Edith Eger has some powerful words to offer us. Her message? Concentrate not on what you lost, but what you still have. In this inspiring conversation, Dr. Edie reveals her greatest lessons on loss, rejection, the power of choice, finding strength in suffering, ways to think about guilt, and why the word “can’t” isn’t in her vocabulary.
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In this episode we talk about:
- Dr. Edith's experience while at Auschwitz.
- The role her faith played during her time there.
- How she turned her pain into her purpose.
- Discovering her inner strength.
- The foundation of her theory as a psychologist.
Dr. Edith is the author of THE GIFT: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life
and the NYT Bestseller THE CHOICE: Embrace the Possible
Episode benefitting USC Shoah Foundation
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| 1:03.2 | to tell you to concentrate on not what you lost, but what you still have with you. And the COVID is time out, time out to re-decide, not to go back, but to have a new beginning. |
| 1:21.1 | Dr. Edith Eager is a psychologist, best-selling author, and survivor of possibly the worst atrocity ever known to mankind, |
| 1:31.7 | the Holocaust. She was just a teenager when she and her family were sent to Auschwitz, |
| 1:38.5 | her parents to the gas chambers, and Edith and her sister Magda to survive endless days of pain, starvation, |
| 1:49.0 | and suffering. But in the hell of this camp, Edith discovered something surprising and vital, |
| 1:56.7 | that enduring the worst conditions imaginable brought out the best in herself. |
| 2:03.0 | And those lessons would carry her through to her ultimate liberation on May 4, 1945, |
| 2:11.1 | and for the rest of her adult life. |
| 2:14.6 | Most of all, I really tell the children in school what my mom told me in the train, |
| 2:22.8 | and she said, we don't know where we're going. |
| 2:25.7 | We don't know what's going to happen, honey. |
| 2:28.4 | Just remember, no one can take away from you what you put in your mind. |
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