
“You are in the wilderness when you have left who you were and there is no turning back.” - Jean Shinoda Bolen
Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, speaker, activist and author of 13 books including Artemis: The Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman.
In this podcast, I sat down with Jean to discuss freedom of choice, breaking through society’s expectations, and the unique journey of discovering your wants and desires. Paving your own road is not a simple task. Defining your own happiness requires leaving some things that are familiar to you, behind.
More about Jean: Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst and an internationally known author and speaker. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, a former clinical professor of psychiatry at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California Medical Center and a past board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women, the International Transpersonal Association, and the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She is the author of thirteen books in over one hundred foreign editions. She is a NGO Permanent Representative to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women from the Women’s World Summit Foundation (Geneva), also represents Pathways To Peace, The Millionth Circle, Earthchild Institute, Women’s Perspective, and the International Public Policy Institute. She is in three acclaimed documentaries: the Academy-Award winning anti-nuclear proliferation film “Women – For America, For the World,” the Canadian Film Board’s “Goddess Remembered,” and “Femme: Women Healing the World.
Episode Resources:
Goddesses in Everywoman - Powerful Archetypes in Women’s Lives by Jean Shinoda Bolen
Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness as a Soul Journey by Jean Shinoda Bolen
Artemis - The Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman by Jean Shinoda Bolen
Gods in Everyman - Archetypes That Shape Men’s Lives by Jean Shinoda Bolen
Crossing to Avalon: A Woman’s Midlife Quest for Sacred Feminine by Jean Shinoda Bolen
Learn more about Dr. Bolen: https://www.jeanbolen.com/
Produced by Aleksa Mara
Edited by Veronica Gruba
Hosted & Created by Britta Bushnell, PHD