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🗓️ 12 June 2021
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On today’s special episode of the podcast, Ryan talks to Dr. Edith Eger about her book The Choice: Embrace the Possible which details her time at the Auschwitz concentration camp, the importance of feeling traumatic experiences in an effort to heal them, how suffering should lead us to strength rather than victimization, why forgiveness is a gift that you must choose to give to yourself, and more.
A native of Hungary, Edith Eva Eger was just a teenager in 1944 when she experienced one of the worst evils the human race has ever known. As a Jew living in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, she and her family were sent to Auschwitz, the heinous death camp. Her parents were sent to the gas chambers but Edith’s bravery kept her and her sister alive. Dr. Eger is a practicing psychologist and a specialist in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. She is also the author of the bestselling memoir The Choice: Embrace the Possible and The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life.
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0:10.5 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke each weekday |
0:14.8 | We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics |
0:18.7 | Something to help you live up to those four Stoke virtues of courage justice |
0:23.6 | Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics |
0:30.0 | We interview Stoic philosophers we explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives |
0:40.0 | And the challenging issues of our time here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down |
0:47.5 | Be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring |
1:01.8 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke podcast |
1:07.1 | Today's guest is |
1:09.1 | someone who |
1:10.6 | We'll call them a late bloomer, but their long germination is to the benefit of of all of humanity |
1:16.7 | I'm talking about Dr. Edith Egger the author of this wonderful book the choice |
1:21.7 | Embrace the possible she was born in 1927 to Hungarian Jewish parents and |
1:28.8 | If you understand your history won't surprise you to hear that she |
1:33.7 | She survives the Holocaust and then flees |
1:37.8 | Hungarian communism after she survives ends up in opasotexas is a mother and it's only at age |
1:44.6 | 50 that she goes back to school to become a clinical psychologist |
1:49.6 | She's introduced to the work of Dr. Victor Frankl who we talked about here a lot in the podcast man search for meaning yes to life |
1:57.0 | one of the founders of of of Logan therapy |
2:01.1 | But Dr. Egger's book is |
2:03.8 | Incredibly moving |
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