Log 4

The first time I saw this book. I was wondering the writer's name. Dr. Eger, an eminent psychologist and one of the few remaining Holocaust survivors old enough to remember life in the camps, she has worked with veterans, military personnel and victims of physical and mental trauma. Futhermore, she is the writer of the book that I read previously, The Choice. Therefore, this is the reason why I was familiar with her name at the first I saw this book, The Gift.

This book has a strong emotions which floating in the whole book. Dr. Eger had shared her life experience during the Holocaust which carried enormous sadness and brutality. However, this distress play a important role in the book. It was because this terrifying memories that lived with her, the positivity and hope inside of her could be more powerful and affected lots of people deeply and directly.

The more I read, the softer I became. Every word and sentence in this book shows nothing but  the genuineness and warmth. As I put myself in this book, it felt like I was cured by it. Even though the hardship and fiendishness that Dr. Eger had suffered in her past, her words and thoughts were like the cotton or flowers that blooming in the early spring. Giving so much of power but not forced and clunky.

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As the second picture that I posted. The first sentence said “Healing can't happen as long as we're hiding or disowning parts of ourselves.” This sentence might sound homespun without any special. But it solved the problem which had importuned me for a long while. The anwser was so crystal clear. How could a patient be treated without knowing the orig. Despit the sadness and pain that I must go through would tear me apart undoubtly, I need to belive this would be the process which could cure me completely. I knew the pain if I ran away from the depress, from that dark place. Maybe it could be a painkiller but merely temporarily. Just like the sentence said on the next “The things we silence or cover up become like hostage in the basement, trying more and more desperately to get our attetion.”. If I chosed not facing it, that part of me, the part that hard to be described, would eventually became a beats that chasing me eating me alive. So, from this book I finally acquired the way to really cure myself. Totally honesty and sincerity were the best remedy. No one can treat themselves without embrancing the ugliest version.