About this episode

Julie Friedeberger shares her life story and experiences with Gendlin's Focusing at the age of 90, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Gene Gendlin.

Discovering Gendlin’s Focusing at 90 with Julie Friedeberger This celebrates EPISODE 50 of The Living Process as well as Gendlin's 100th anniversary. Julie shares her life story, including her Jewish heritage and the history of persecution of her family, her husband's persecution during the Second World War and sharing this history with Gene Gendlin and his escape to America. Julie worked on the original research with Gendlin in the late 1950s and was a client in that research. She discusses her move to England, and her dedication to teaching and writing about Yoga. Julie also talks about the challenges of her own cancer and caring for her husband with dementia, which took years to recover from. Therapy and Focusing played a significant role in her recovery. At 90, Julie rediscovered Gene’s work and began guided Focusing sessions, now pursuing practitioner training. This episode is a heartfelt tribute to Gene’s 100th anniversary, Julie's life story, and the 50th episode of The Living Process. Episode 50 - https://youtu.be/6h-ipxRo1G4 The Living Process - all episodes and podcast links: https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/ TLP YouTube video channel…

People in this episode

Host: Dr Greg Madison

Guest: Julie Friedeberger

Topics covered

• Focusing
• personal history
• cancer recovery
• dementia care
• Yoga
• Gene Gendlin

Keywords

• Focusing
• Julie Friedeberger
• Gene Gendlin
• cancer
• dementia
• Yoga
• personal history

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Living Process

Places: America, England

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