The Edith Eger Foundation is committed to each of us having a joyful, healthy, fulfilled life by embracing the challenges of our past to guide us towards the expression of our greatest gifts.
We provide tools and practices to help people take the difficult circumstances of their past and use them as the keys to discovering their inner resources, helping them thrive today and into the future.
The Edith Eger Foundation is committed to each of us having a joyful, healthy, fulfilled life by embracing the challenges of our past to guide us towards the expression of our greatest gifts.
We provide tools and practices to help people take the difficult circumstances of their past and use them as the keys to discovering their inner resources, helping them thrive today and into the future.
Discover how the Edith Eger Foundation can support you right now toward becoming your empowered, authentic self, free from guilt and anxiety.
Our Mission
Our work is based on the wisdom of Dr. Edith Eger, psychologist, author of best-selling books The Gift and The Choice, and Holocaust survivor. The Foundation works to bring these healing tools out into the world at this critical time in human history.
"I will be forever changed by Edith Eger's story."
-ORPRAH WINFREY
Interviewed Dr.. Eger on her Emmy
Award winning show: Super Soul Sunday
"She's dedicated her life to finding her freedom and dedicated her career to helping us understand trauma, healing, and the power of the human spirit.
I will never stop feeling deeply moved by and grateful for this conversation and Dr. Eger's work."
-Brené Brown
"I will be forever changed by Edith Eger's
story."
-ORPRAH WINFREY
Interviewed Dr.. Eger on her Emmy
Award winning show: Super Soul Sunday
"She's dedicated her life to finding her freedom and dedicated her career to helping us understand trauma, healing, and the power of the human spirit.
I will never stop feeling deeply moved by and grateful for this conversation and Dr. Eger's work."
-Brené Brown
The team behind the mission.
Dr. Edith Eger
Co-Founder and Board Advisor
Dr. Eger's approach and perspective are the life force of our time together and serve to center all the insights from our other leaders.
Jordan Engle
Executive Director + Board Member
Jordan Engle is Dr. Eger's grandson, and has made his life's work to connect the vital message of Dr. Eger with those who most need to hear it. His background as a filmmaker and story teller have been instrumental in helping Dr. Eger tell her story for the last 5 years.
Wendy Walker
Board Member
Producer for Larry King for over 30 years, Wendy is both a master communicator who is committed to bringing Edie's message to the world.
Alex Morrison
Board Member
Over 25 years bringing non-profits' impact into the world, Alex brings expertise and wisdom to the foundation.
Katie Anderson
Secretary + Board Member
Operational expert and dynamic project manager, Katie keeps the team on task on time! She has worked with Edie for over 30 years.
Robert Engle
Treasurer + Board Member
Treasurer / Board Member : Noble Prize winner in Economics and professor of finance at NYU, Rob is Edie’s son in law, and is passionate about her legacy.
The Edith Eger Foundation inspires an international community of empowered people that have discovered “The Gift," releasing themselves from the prisons of their own minds and living to their full potential.
The Edith Eger Foundation (501c3 CA non-profit) inspires an international community of empowered people that have discovered “The Gift," releasing themselves from the prisons of their own minds and living to their full potential.
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"In the end it's not what happens to us that matters most, it's what we choose to do with it."
- "The Choice"
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The Edith Eger Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. EIN 87-1990583