A very powerful and inspiring book. Giving useful anecdotes to the narrative of how we are victims of out thoughts. Highlights ways we can help to change our thinking and mindset to be more productive and kinder to ourselves.

The Gift by Edith Eger is a self help book from a woman who survived Auschwitz, and later in life became a therapist as she realised that she had been running from the trauma she suffered. It's a book with real life scenarios and advice for how to overcome them.  From things like recognising your own behaviour when you say someone else is cold and unfeeling, to loving yourself, and the power of saying that to yourself. This is a very positive read, with lots of encouragement, and love (she calls the reader pet names at times), and gives you tools and thought points for how to help you. I enjoyed the book, and at some point I would like to read her first book,  The Choice.   The Gift  was published on 3rd September 2020, and is available to buy from  Amazon ,  Waterstones , and your  local independent bookshop . You can follow Edith Eger on her  website ,  Twitter ,  Facebook  and  Instagram . I was given this book in return for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Random House  Ebury Publishing .

A truly amazing woman, after all her suffering at Auschwitz, she not only overcame and survived, she went on to study psychology and had helped other people, and is still helping by writing her books! This book differs from Edith Egers book 'the choice ' because it has stories from other survivors of various incidents and it tells how her advice helped them! Advice which even I found interesting and made me think about things in a different way. Such an amazing book from a really remarkable woman. I think everyone should read at least one of her books. Thank you netgalley.

This is the author‘s follow-up to The Choice, which described her time as a teenager in Auschwitz. Now in her 90s, the author is a psychologist and she describes this book as a ‘self-help‘ book. I really like the way that Edie uses her time in Auschwitz to explain her own feelings, but also acknowledges that each person's thoughts and fears are relative. I found this really inspiring, with lots of relatable examples, and practical tasks to try at the end of each chapter. I read this as a #netgalley ARC but I‘m going to buy the book so I can have a copy on my shelf to refer back to.

Having read and enjoyed The Choice, Edith Eger's previous book, I was keen to read this one and was not disappointed. In The Gift, Edith movingly shares her wealth of experience from years of working in psychotherapy. I love her ideas and suggestions even though they often seem hard e.g. don't ever criticise. I am starting to implement them and am already seeing positive changes within my own family. I can't recommend this book enough. Everyone should read Edith's books.