152. James Hollis PhD: Dispelling the Ghosts Running Your Life

Are you allowing your life to be run by “ghosts” - empty narratives, expired beliefs, tired fears, people who should no longer hold sway over your choices?
“When the old stories and beliefs that once defined us have played out and grown exhausted,” writes Dr. James Hollis, “our task is to access our inner compass, the promptings of the psyche that help us find our way through the complex thickets of choice.”
In this episode world-renowned Jungian analyst Dr James Hollis explores with Andrew the ways in which you can hear and answer a “summons of the soul”, and find your own individual sense of life’s meaning.
Dr. James Hollis is a Washington D.C. based Jungian psychoanalyst and the author of nineteen books; the most recent is A Life of Meaning: Relocating Your Center of Spiritual Gravity
Dr Hollis was Executive Director of the Jung Educational Center in Houston, Texas for many years and Executive Director of the Jung Society of Washington (JSW) until 2019. He also worked as a Senior Training Analyst for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, as a Director of Training of the Philadelphia Jung Institute, and is Vice-President Emeritus of the Philemon Foundation.
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[@kamilarosinska5404]

❤ James Hollis, a living legend.

[@tatianakachkovsky]

James Hollis is a gift and a true teacher 💙 Thank you for this conversation.

[@AndrewGMarshallTherapy]

definitely! I was very lucky to be able to interview him a second time.

[@ylmonkeyU2]

Thank you so much for such a profound wisdom from James Hollis, many of us have been wrestling with this quest for years, especially in the second half of life after we've archived what we've expected ourselves to do, and feeling lost. I love the way he interprets it. Appointment with our souls.

[@bink865]

you mean I am not causing trouble by doing what I want to do? I mean, it won't really affect anyone else. but I keep feeling guilty.

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