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painful experiences aren’t a liability—they’re a gift. They give us perspective and meaning, an opportunity to find our unique purpose and our strength.
Edith Eger • The Choice: Embrace the Possible
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. Each moment is a choice. No matter how frustrating or boring or constraining or painful or oppressive our experience, we can always choose how we respond. And I finally begin to
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I often ask my patients if they can think of any person they felt safe with while they were growing up. Many of them hold tight to the memory of that one teacher, neighbor, shopkeeper, coach, or minister who showed that he or she cared, and that memory is often the seed of learning to reengage. We are a hopeful species. Working with trauma is as
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Let It Go: My Extraordinary Story - From Refugee to Entrepreneur to Philanthropist
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The Holocaust survivor Dr. Edith Eger has a son, Johnny, who was born with athetoid cerebral palsy. Johnny struggled to talk, dress himself, hold a fork, or use a spoon. The first doctor Eger saw told her Johnny might not make it to high school and should be placed in a special needs school. Refusing to let one... See more
At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
Viktor E Frankl • Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
Victor Frankl, himself a survivor of Auschwitz (and a neurologist and psychologist): “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”