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The Choice
- Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible
- Narrated by: Tovah Feldshuh
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A powerful, moving memoir - and a practical guide to healing - written by Dr. Edith Eva Eger, an eminent psychologist whose own experiences as a Holocaust survivor help her treat patients and allow them to escape the prisons of their own minds.
Edith Eger was 16 years old when the Nazis came to her hometown in Hungary and took her Jewish family to an internment center and then to Auschwitz. Her parents were sent to the gas chamber by Joseph Mengele soon after they arrived at the camp. Hours later Mengele demanded that Edie dance a waltz to "The Blue Danube" and rewarded her with a loaf of bread that she shared with her fellow prisoners. These women later helped save Edie's life. Edie and her sister survived Auschwitz, were transferred to the Mauthausen and Gunskirchen camps in Austria, and managed to live until the American troops liberated the camps in 1945 and found Edie in a pile of dying bodies.
One of the few living Holocaust survivors to remember the horrors of the camps, Edie has chosen to forgive her captors and find joy in her life every day. Years after she was liberated from the concentration camps, Edie went back to college to study psychology. She combines her clinical knowledge and her own experiences with trauma to help others who have experienced painful events large and small. Dr. Eger has counselled veterans suffering from PTSD, women who were abused, and many others who learned that they, too, can choose to forgive, find resilience, and move forward. She lectures frequently on the power of love and healing.
The Choice weaves Eger's personal story with case studies from her work as a psychologist. Her patients and their stories illustrate different phases of healing and show how people can choose to escape the prisons they construct in their minds and find freedom, regardless of circumstance. Eger's story is an inspiration for everyone. And her message is powerful and important: "Your pain matters and is worth healing: You can choose to be joyful and free." She is 89 years old and still dancing.
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- B McGaw
- 2021-07-23
Life changing.
Powerful book. I have shared with my teenage kids. This is an encouraging message about the power we have regardless of circumstances and how those lessons can change our lives for the better.
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- Loretta
- 2020-04-29
powerful
thank you for your hard work and teach me about choice." no one can take from us what we put in our mine"
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- ally
- 2020-04-12
simply beautiful person wrote a beautiful book,
my words will be too pale to describe how beautiful the book is only reading it justifies. Thanks and god bless.
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- E. Silva
- 2024-06-25
What a life story!
Thank you for writing this book. It was extremely useful to me personally. I can’t even imagine what you went through, I’m sure the pictures and videos show only a small part of it. But learning directly from you, a survivor and everything that you accomplished. Bravo! 🙏🏼
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- Mrs Crossley
- 2020-09-11
Beautiful and heart wrenching
As a daughter of Hungarian immigrants, this story told by Dr.Eger touched me so deeply. It was almost as if I was listening to my mother talk about her childhood, or lack of. It made me think about all that she had gone through and how she's survived. This audible book was beautifully written and the narrative was impeccable. A+++
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- Anonymous User
- 2019-04-01
Powerful Memoir
An amazing recollection of powerful memories from an amazing strong and powerful lady. The ability to overcome and fight for outer and most of all inner freedom of choice and victory!
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- Holly
- 2021-04-04
I will never forget this book.
incredible. devastating. empowering. everyone needs to read this. it will change how you view your own trauma and recovery.
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- Hopelyn Marie Mullings
- 2021-08-26
Healing
If you desire to visit your pain to find healing read this book. I will be reading again and continuing to share with others.
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- Kevin
- 2022-06-21
Amazing
Inspiring and thought provoking. A must read! So much insight to what true freedom is.
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- Linda
- 2020-09-16
Embrace the possible
I enjoyed every word of this book. It made me become introspective about my own painful past and caused me to exam some of the choices I have made to fulfill my life with happiness and accomplishment. I have survived and I have flourished. I have chosen not to repeat the painful mistakes of those in my past. I have survived and I feel fulfilled. This is a book that will make you feel sad or happy; it is for you to decide.
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