Lessons to Save Your Life with Dr. Edith Eger and Dr. Marianne Engle

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sharon sits down with psychologist and best-selling author, Dr. Edith Eger and her daughter–who is also a psychologist–Dr. Marianne Engle. When Dr. Eger was a young girl, she was a talented gymnast who trained for the Olympic games but was instead imprisoned at Auschwitz. As a survivor, she has written beautiful books full of light and healing. Dr. Eger advocates that we don’t ask “Why me?” but rather, “What now?”, which is a question that promotes action and an openness to change and possibility. Both Dr. Eger and Dr. Engle remind us that you can’t heal what you don’t feel; acknowledging our stories is a step toward freedom.

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome.
0:03.0	Always delighted to have you with me and today I am chatting with two remarkable women,
0:08.0	Doctors Eager and Engel.
0:11.0	And Dr Edith Eager, perhaps you have heard of her before. She's written a number of
0:16.9	best-selling books, but she is a Holocaust survivor. And she is 94 years old and absolutely a daughter is also a psychologist and has so much to add to this conversation
0:35.8	about growing up the child of a Holocaust survivor so let's dive in I'm Sharon
0:41.5	McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast.
0:47.2	I am so delighted to welcome both of you here today. Thank you so much for making time in your
0:51.6	lives to do this. There's so much for making time in your lives to do this.
0:53.0	There's so much we could discuss.
0:55.0	So let's just dive in with a little bit of an introduction
0:58.0	into who each of you are in your story
1:00.0	so that you can familiarize listeners with the incredible work that you're doing.
1:05.0	I usually say to people that I have a story but I'm not my story and I yeah and people introduce me I'm a survivor of Auschwitz I am a human
1:19.1	being who went through an experience it's not my identity.
1:24.1	I'm coming to you actually as a 94 year old
1:28.2	who's been around and lived life as fully as she could and how to make something good out of anything
1:38.4	even in the midst of evil.
1:41.8	I'm able to somehow find within us our inner resources. So it really was not
1:49.7	the recovery, but the discovery. And this is what I'm hoping that people can learn
1:56.4	under these circumstances
1:58.9	that they still have something that no one ever could rob your spirit.
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