The release date for the English version of 'The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life' by
Edith Eger is Sep 2020. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Choice offers us a helpful and uplifting guide to healing that teaches us how to break away from negative thinking patterns and harmful tendencies so that we may live life to the fullest.
The Choice, Edith Eger's gripping first novel, chronicled her survival in the death camps, escape, recovery, and path to freedom. Thousands of people have written to Eger from all over the globe, expressing how The Choice affected them, how it motivated them to face their own grief and attempt to get beyond it, and requesting that she create another, more "how-to" book. Now, in The Gift, Eger builds on her healing message and offers a practical manual that nudges us in the right direction to alter the beliefs and actions that could be holding us back from our past.
According to Eger, the harshest jail she has ever been in was not the one the Nazis imprisoned her in, but rather the one she built for herself—the prison within her own head. She lists the twelve most common imprisoning ideas she has encountered, along with the strategies she has found to address these universal problems. These beliefs include fear, sorrow, wrath, secrets, stress, guilt, shame, and avoidance. Each chapter contains thought-provoking questions and takeaways, such as the following, accompanied by anecdotes from Eger's own life and the lives of her patients:
-Are you interested in getting married to me?
-Are you changing or becoming worse?
-What you cannot feel, you cannot cure.
The Gift, a work of empathy, wisdom, and humour, offers support and guidance for escaping our inner prisons so that we may find healing and enjoy life while also capturing the fragility and shared struggles that we all experience.