How to Free Yourself From Your Mental Prisons, With Psychologist Dr. Edith Eger
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4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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This week we're breaking free from our mental prisons of victimhood, fear, and hopelessness with help from psychologist and Holocaust survivor Dr. Edith Eger. Dr. Eger is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Choice: Embrace the Possible, which is her memoir about surviving Auschwitz. Her most recent book, The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life, is her guide to navigating life’s most complicated challenges.
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| 1:57.9 | And today we are finding freedom. |
| 2:00.1 | Yes, we're finding our psychological and emotional |
| 2:02.7 | freedom. We're breaking free from our mental prisons and we're getting help from psychologists and |
| 2:06.8 | Holocaust survivor, Dr. Edith Eager. The way I think, that's what I create. So be a take charge |
| 2:15.1 | person, your thinking, your feeling, and your behavior. |
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