The Gift: 14 Lessons to Save Your Life
Written by Edith Eva Eger
Narrated by Tovah Feldshuh
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About this audiobook
“I will be forever changed by Edith Eger’s story.” —Oprah
A practical and inspirational guide to stopping destructive patterns and imprisoning thoughts to find freedom and joy in life—now updated to address the challenges of the pandemic and a world in crisis.
World renowned psychologist and internationally bestselling author, Edith Eger’s, powerful New York Times bestselling book The Choice told the story of her survival in the concentration camps, her escape, healing, and journey to freedom. Readers around the world wrote to tell her how The Choice moved them and inspired them to confront their own past and try to heal their pain. They asked her to write another, more prescriptive book. Eger’s second book, The Gift, expands on her message of healing and provides a hands-on guide that gently encourages readers to change the thoughts and behaviors that may be keeping them imprisoned in the past.
Eger explains that the worst prison she experienced is not the prison that Nazis put her in but the one she created for herself: the prison within her own mind. She describes the most pervasive imprisoning beliefs she has known—including fear, grief, anger, secrets, stress, guilt, shame, and avoidance—and the tools she has discovered to deal with these universal challenges. These lessons are offered through riveting and inspiring stories from her life and the lives of her patients.
This new, revised edition of The Gift contains two new chapters that examine the invaluable insights and lessons Edie learned during the Covid-19 pandemic; a time she used to rediscover freedom even in lockdown and to enjoy the simple pleasures of life, including preparing and sharing meals with the ones we love. Edie includes recipes for some of her favorite dishes which have been updated and tested by her daughter Marianne Engle and explains how food can be a deep expression of love and connection.
As readers seek to find joy and some peace in these challenging times, Eger’s wisdom and heartfelt advice is as timely, and timeless, as ever and certain to resonate with Eger’s devoted readers and those who have not yet found her transformational wisdom.
Filled with empathy, insight, and humor, The Gift captures the vulnerability and common challenges we all face and provides encouragement and advice for breaking out of our personal prisons to find healing and greater joy in life.
Edith Eva Eger
Edith Eger is an eminent psychologist and one of the few remaining Holocaust survivors old enough to remember life in the camps. A colleague of Viktor Frankl, Dr. Edith Eger has worked with veterans, military personnel, and victims of physical and mental trauma. She lives in La Jolla, California, and is the author of the bestselling and award-winning books The Choice and The Gift. Edie and her daughter, Marianne Engle—a renowned psychologist and food writer who helped develop the recipes in The Gift—encourage you to try the delicious dishes in the book and share your thoughts at LoveEdieandMarianne@Gmail.com.
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Reviews for The Gift
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Listened to it on Everand, buying a copy to begin working on the 14 gifts for myself.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book opens your eyes to the horror and triumph of a woman that chose to use her pain to help others.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My 2nd book by dr. Eger whom I doscovered earlier this year. I loved it! I don't know if I would have liked it equally, if I hadn't read "The Choice", but still dr. Eger comes with so many concrete cases in this book that it is possible to relate to the stories and cases without having a deeper insight into dr. Eger's own past.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beautiful Book!!! I loved it! I highly recommended it. perfect for healing.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is an amazing read on so many levels!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This audiobook was beautiful & comforting to listen to. It was the perfect complement to Edith Eger's book The Choice
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of the best audiobooks I’ve ever heard. Not a full moment, and totally inspirational! Edith is amazing! I would love to meet her someday .
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved this book! So many lessons! Now I want to get the physical copy for annotations
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This light at the end of the tunnel is not an oncoming train. It is Hope.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Just as good as The Choice from an inspirational perspective. Practical approach to being satisfied in life.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent book! Many practical exercises So much to ponder. It was a gift.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book helps free your mind. It’s soul food! Listen
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A most amazing read. Guidance to our inner frontier. Healing the ties that bind.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is so good that I plan to give it to some people as gifts. I can recognize myself and the work I need to do. I'm grateful. Thanks
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It is beautifully written and thought provoking. I certainly recommend it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Her life experiences will inspire you to rally your inner warrior and live the life you were meant to live!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Absolutely loved this book.
I had to stop many times just to digest, think and apply the lessons into everyday life
I was already a huge fan after I finished her book “THE CHOICE” which not only wrote about her survival back in Auschwitz’s, but most importantly, her learning on how to accept and move on.
This book was written during pandemic and summarized all the lessons that we have to learn in life. It easy, it is simple, it s mature and straight forward.
I would recommend this to everyone I know. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a great book. Truth and so many lessons to be learned. Love, hope, resilience, the human experience. 2020 was a year where we experienced these lessons so very much. Everyone should read this book
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5She inspires me!! She has taught us the Age means nothing. What matters is goals & hope & looking forward.
Thank you for who you are & all you do!! - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excelente, very helpful to me, a must read book today
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Concise and to the point. Inspiring. Easy to follow for anyone looking for direction or guidance.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What can one say about the life of an Holocaust survivor who spends her life creating a safe haven for traumatic experience survivors, to heal and thrive through her own experience with fear, shame, guilt and hope. I can't remember any book that has made me think more than hers.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It’s rare to encounter a book about life’s most essential skills: being, feeling, enduring, choosing, written by a person whose wisdom is so hard-won and profound. A true gem. Thanks to Dr.Eger for this gift.