I don’t have time to hate, because if I would hate, I would still be a hostage or a prisoner of the past. Listen for the I can’t, the I’m trying, the I need to, and then see if you can replace these imprisoning phrases with something else: I can, I want, I’m willing, I choose. It means accepting that the past is the past, that it can’t be undone, and allowing yourself to feel sad about it. It’s what lit the fire within my soul when I read The Choice and it’s what made its flame shine even brighter as I made my way through The Gift. Everyone was given a choice when faced with death, sadness, loss, failure, anxiety, depression or any other feelings.

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Propria traumă a determinat-o s-o ia pe drumul tămăduirii durerii altora, ea însăși să ne fie, prin terapie și scris, alinarea de care a fost lipsită și care a lăsat-o cu sechele. Today she continues to impart those very same lessons she learned as a young girl to encourage her patients to make good choices and choose to celebrate life. I can’t imagine what it must have been like to put yourself back together at the age of 17 after experiencing Auschwitz. And psychotherapist Viktor Frankl wrote: “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. And the other one said to me, ‘You know, doc, I am sitting in a wheelchair, and I’m so grateful that my God gave me a second chance in life.You can’t change the situation, you can’t change someone else’s mind, but you can look at reality differently.

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Join me on Episode 1,010 to learn about healing, forgiveness, and finding freedom with Holocaust survivor Dr. Eger discuss the power of thought, how the most obnoxious person can be your best teacher, why “How are you doing? Sometimes people compensate for the upheaval of grief by trying to keep everything the same—jobs, routines, and relationships remain static. Several times a day, make a conscious effort to check in with your body and take your own emotional temperature.Dr Eger addresses the prisons of victimhood, avoidance, self-neglect, secrets, guilt and shame, unresolved grief, rigidity, resentment, paralysing fear, judgement, hopelessness, and not forgiving.