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“The Choice” Wins 2017 National Jewish Book Award


The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Dr. Edith Eva Eger wins the National Jewish Book Award in the Krauss Family’s Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir category.

The National Jewish Book Awards is the longest-running awards program of its kind and were established by the Jewish Book Council in 1950 in order to recognize outstanding works of Jewish literature. The winners of the 2017 National Jewish Book Awards were honored on March 6, 2018 at a gala awards dinner and ceremony at the Prince George Ballroom in Manhattan.

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The Power of Choice

Dr. Edith Eger, renowned trauma recovery therapist, speaker and new author, talks about harnessing the power of choice to free ourselves from past traumas and move forward in forgiveness. Learn about her heroic story of survival and inspiration by reading her new memoir, THE CHOICE: Embrace the Possible.

Prison of Our Own Mind

Dr. Edith Eger, renowned trauma recovery therapist, speaker and new author, talks about freeing ourselves from the prisons of our own minds. Learn about her heroic story of survival and inspiration by reading her new memoir, THE CHOICE: Embrace the Possible.

You’ve Got to Feel to Heal

Dr. Edith Eger, renowned trauma recovery therapist, speaker and new author, talks about the need to truly feel and experience memories in order to break through to healing and moving beyond the past. Learn about her heroic story of survival and inspiration by reading her new memoir, THE CHOICE: Embrace the Possible.

YOU are the mirror

Sometimes you must make the choice to dig deeper to find something worth reflecting.

Each of us can be a mirror of hope to someone else. In the despair of Auschwitz, Edith Eger was a mirror of hope and fortitude to her sister and countless others… She remains so today through her active psychology practice, speaking engagements, and her new memoir, THE CHOICE: Embrace the Possible.

‘Us’ vs. ‘Them’?

90-yr-old Holocaust survivor, educator, esteemed therapist and speaker, Edith Eger, shares her experience and advice about choosing ‘love over hate’ and embracing our perceived enemies. Does it have to be ‘Us’ vs. ‘Them’?

Based on the words and wisdom in Dr. Edith Eva Eger’s new memoir, THE CHOICE: Embrace the Possible.

Influential Author and Thought Leader Adam Grant Touts THE CHOICE

[THE CHOICE] is a truly beautiful memoir on freedom by a Holocaust survivor turned clinical psychologist, reminiscent of the great works of Anne Frank and Viktor Frankl. Reading it gave me goosebumps.

—Adam Grant, New York Times Bestselling author
GIVE AND TAKE and ORIGINALS and OPTION B

THE CHOICE is number 1 on Adam Grant’s Fall 2017 list of books on Happiness & Resilience >>

Bookpage deems THE CHOICE ‘more than an eloquent memoir’

The Choice is more than an eloquent memoir by Holocaust survivor and psychologist Edith Eva Eger. It is an exploration of the healing potential of choice. When someone chooses to harm us, our sense of self can later be overwhelmed by the memory of that pain. But Eger, who has helped countless trauma patients, believes that we can regain our autonomy by choosing to confront the past—a lesson she learned from her own experience.

Read the full Bookpage review by Deborah Mason >>

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A powerful, moving memoir–and a practical guide to healing–written by Dr. Edith Eva Eger, an eminent psychologist whose own experiences as a Holocaust survivor help her treat patients and allow them to escape the prisons of their own minds. #TheChoice thechoicememoir.com

Meet Dr. Edith Eger: 90-yr-old high-kickin’ San Diegan, holocaust survivor & thriver, lauded therapist and speaker, and truly inspiring human being. Her memoir, THE CHOICE, goes beyond her experience at Auschwitz and surviving the Holocaust. It weaves the story of a teenage girl carrying her secrets and survivor’s guilt into womanhood and motherhood, and growing into forgiveness and acceptance and ultimately a source of healing for others. #TheChoice thechoicememoir.com

‘The Choice is a gift to humanity. One of those rare and eternal stories that you don’t want to end and that leave you forever changed. Dr. Eger’s life reveals our capacity to transcend even the greatest of horrors and to use that suffering for the benefit of others. She has found true freedom and forgiveness and shows us how we can as well.’ —DESMOND TUTU, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate #TheChoice thechoicememoir.com

#TheChoice rcvd @KIRKUS starred review: poignantly crafted memoir…a searing astute study of intensive healing & self-acceptance #booklover

@TheDesmondTutu: #TheChoice is a gift to humanity. One of those rare & eternal stories that you don’t want to end. thechoicememoir.com

#TheChoice A more important book for our times is hard to imagine—THE BOOKSELLER #booklover #reading #transformation thechoicememoir.com

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