Dr. Edith Eger
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Can you believe it?
And I can reach the flowers much closer.
And I felt like a biggest imposter because I had a 16 year old in me that I ran away from.
I really wasn't qualified to take them further.
because I have not taken myself.
I went to school, and I went to school, and I became Dr. Edith Iwaige, but I never really did the work, and so I went back to Auschwitz.
I asked my sister to come with me, probably in the 70s or 80s,
And she told me, I'm an idiot.
And that was the end of that.
My sister coming with me and I went alone.
And today the work I do to revisit the places where you've been, to relive that experience, but then you revise your life.
It's not going back.
It's a new beginning.
I was angry, and I didn't know what to do with anger.
I ran from it, but I was angry.
I was mad as hell, and I had to find a way.
to turn depression into expression.
We just build it up.
It doesn't go away.
You cannot run away.