The promise of the book I am reading, The Choice – Embracing the Possible by Dr. Edith Eva Eger,is that it will leave you changed forever. The alchemy of the book is working on me. Here is whats happened.
Edith is a surviver of Auschwitz and the Holocaust. She lost her parents and barely survived herself, eventually immigrating to the US. She suffered for years from what we now know is PTSD. Her healing journey led her to become a therapist, specializing in PTSD. But it is when she is invited to speak to a group of Army Chaplains in Germany that she faces her final challenge. She is terrified to return. But she asks herself these questions; “What will I leave in the world when I am gone? I have already chosen to relinquish secrets and denial and shame. But have I really made peace with the past? Is there more to resolve so that I don’t perpetuate more pain?”…
