The Gift

14 Lessons to Save Your Life

De: Edith Eva Eger

Narrado por: Tovah Feldshuh

Winner of the 2021 Audie Award

“I will be forever changed by Edith Eger’s story.” —Oprah Winfrey

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 her 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 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.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Tovah Feldshuh's mature voice and acclaimed acting skills make her an excellent choice to perform this heartfelt advice from a 93-year-old Jewish–Hungarian clinical psychologist and Holocaust survivor. Feldshuh's lilting phrasing is incredibly varied, beautiful to hear in itself, and finessed to match every nuance in the shifting themes of this work. Her performance really shines because of her audible connection with the author's empathy, compassion, and wisdom. Eger's story of surviving the death camps at Auschwitz and her focus on helping people recover from trauma could have made this audiobook difficult to hear. But with the warmth and sensibilities of the author and the narrator working together so effectively, what dominates the listening is hope and infectious confidence in the wisdom of Eger's empowering advice."

Dr. Eger is a national treasure

Absolutely loved everything about this book! Dr. Eger has a way of taking very difficult topics that take most other authors hours to cover and does it in 10 words or less every time. This is great life advice for anyone and everyone. So glad I found this book.

Freedom indeed!

So far the BEST Self Help book I've listened to so far. It touched on many facets of my life. Especially the section about grief, being that my mom passed away less than 6 months ago. I choose to be Free!

life changing

taking these lessons to heart will help anyone. I found it to be loving and from a good place.

Life changing

Dr. Eger is my role model and I don’t have many. When I was introduced to her by Opera I quickly followed her, read both her books, and feel inspired dearly by her journey. My grandparents were survivors who hid in the woods and immigrated around the same time. I’ve learned so much about their feelings that it’s helped me work through my relationship with my recently deceased mother and the strength of my heritage. I wish I could meet her because I’ve been living in the same community for many years.

profound in every way!!

I loved this book so much! its truly life changing, very slow start, lessons begin in chapter 2, but once u get there I had to start taking notes! it was lightbulb moment after light bulb moments until the end! A gift that cant be repaid, love love loved it!