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Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore

Dr. Edith Eger On Resilience

Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore

Susie Moore

Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Philosophy, Life Coach, Motivational, Education, Personal Development, Life Coaching, Self-help, Mental Health

5.01.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

When I read The Choice, I stopped a few times just to breathe. Because the words written by a holocaust survivor are raw and honest and heartbreaking. It's one of the best books I've ever read. It's no wonder that Oprah says she will be "forever changed" by reading Dr. Edith Eger's story. A native of Hungary, Edith Eva Eger was just a teenager in 1944 when she and her family were sent to Auschwitz. Her parents were sent to the gas chambers, but Edith's bravery kept her and her sister alive. T...

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0:00.0

Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

0:07.0

Now I don't play favorites with my guests, but Dr Edith Eager is extremely extremely special.

0:21.4

I found out about her through my mom who sent me her book The Choice, which is quite frankly one of the best books I've ever read.

0:35.0

Written by a Holocaust survivor,

0:38.0

Dr Edith Eager is raw and honest,

0:41.0

and her story is heartbreaking. It's no wonder that Oprah says that she will be forever

0:48.1

changed after reading Dr Edith Eager's story.

0:54.0

Dr Edith Eager grew up in Hungary and was just a teenager when her and her family were sent to Auschwitz.

1:01.3

Her parents did not survive. The rest I will let you read in the choice, although you'll hear a lot about it in this interview, because I don't want to rob you of the rich experience of reading that book from this

1:17.6

woman's heart who cares so much about humanity, who believes in love, who is now a psychologist doing incredible work even at the age of

1:29.2

94 she still sees patients she just came out with an online course. Her book The Gift has just been revised.

1:38.0

And I urge you to check out her work and follow this woman because she is an inspiration. Now I give you Dr Edith.

1:49.1

Dr Edith, I cannot tell you how much your work has meant to me and to my family. My mom actually sent me your book, The Choice years ago and my mom grew up in Nazi occupied Poland. She was born in

2:08.6

1942 and yes she's found so much healing from your story. She still has her own flashbacks,

2:19.3

her own physical response to, you know, so many things that she experienced in her life so first of all I have to just say thank you for your generosity and showing up today at 94 years old to have a conversation and to share wisdom with us. Thank you.

2:37.2

Thank you and for having your mom as a survivor and can really recognize that you will appreciate your

2:49.6

ancestors because they never gave up. That's you that's the blood you carry so I hope you are

2:58.8

very proud. Thank you Dr Edith.. I do feel so proud of my ancestors and I feel as if in my lifetime it's my obligation

3:10.2

to maximize my life experience because of how hard everyone worked for me to be.

3:15.0

I know my mother would be very proud right now knowing that I do everything in my power, that your children, your grandchildren

3:29.3

will never experience what I did. So I think it's our job, yours and mine, to let people know what happens

3:38.0

when good people do bad things.

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