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The Choice: Embrace the Possible
by Edith Eva Eger
This is not a book you just breeze through. The beginning where Dr. Eger tells her story of being in Auschwitz, the terror, the horror and the atrocities that occurred there as well as the resilience of her fellow prisoners and the strength that her sister and her shared to get each other through was intense. It was hard. It still haunts me the cruelty that humans are capable of. Yet it also reminds me to not stay silent when I see oppression so this never happens again.
After her survival from the camps and her escape to the USA, while Dr. Eger struggles to once again survive she shares her thoughts, her ways of coping and ultimately how to embrace your choices. Every moment is a choice and what you choose to do with it is up to you.
If you don't think you could handle reading the beginning of this book I understand. My wife struggles with it, she had survivors in her family and we have been through a lot of trauma ourselves. I still say get this book. Flip to the last section on healing and read that. There are so many quotes and tidbits of wisdom in these pages I can't express how much this book will change how you look at life.
Strength and resilience come from within, we make choices every day to love or embrace others despite our differences or not. Do you want to live in fear or in freedom? Thank you Dr. Eger for having the strength not only to survive and thrive but to share your story so that we never forget. So that we can learn what a person is capable of, both inhumane and through their own inner will.
"It's easier to hold someone or something else responsible for your pain than to take responsibility for ending your own victimhood."