[ENCORE EPISODE] James Hollis: What Is Wanting to Find Expression Through You?

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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**SPECIAL ENCORE PRESENTATION IN SUPPORT OF WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY THIS OCTOBER**

Dr. James Hollis is a Jungian analyst, a former director of the Jung Society of Washington, DC, and a professor of Jungian Studies for Saybrook University of San Francisco/Houston. He is the author of The Middle Passage, Living an Examined Life, Through the Dark Wood, and Living Between Worlds, among many others. With Sounds True, he’s released the expansive audio program A Life of Meaning: Exploring Our Deepest Questions and Motivations.

In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with James about the journey for personal fulfillment—how it starts, what it demands, and how it changes your life. James explains what it really means to take responsibility for your life’s path, as well as how you can rediscover and reclaim your innate authority. Tami and James discuss how childhood experiences shape our present behavior and what it takes to live fearlessly. Finally, they talk about overcoming lethargy and the joy of becoming comfortable with mysteries.

This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Listeners of Insights At The Edge get 10% off their first month at www.betterhelp.com/soundstrue.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by Sounds True.
0:06.0	My name is Tammy Simon. I'm the founder of Sounds True, and I'd love to take a moment to introduce you to the new Sounds True Foundation.
0:14.0	The Sounds True Foundation is dedicated to creating a wiser and kinder world by making transformational education widely available.
0:24.6	We want everyone to have access to transformational tools, such as mindfulness, emotional awareness, and self-compassion,
0:35.6	regardless of financial, social, or physical challenges.
0:40.7	The Sounds True Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to providing these transformational tools
0:47.1	to communities in need, including at-risk youth, prisoners, veterans, and those in developing countries. If you'd like to learn
0:56.5	more or feel inspired to become a supporter, please visit SoundsTrueFoundation.org.
1:08.5	You're listening to Insights at the Edge.
1:10.9	Today my guest is James Hollis.
1:13.6	Jim is a Jungian analyst, a former director of the Young Society of Washington, D.C.,
1:20.3	and the author of more than 15 books, including two books with Sounds True,
1:26.5	living an examined life and living between worlds,
1:30.3	finding personal resilience in changing times.
1:34.3	With Sounds True, he's also created the audio series,
1:37.3	Through the Dark Wood, finding meaning in the second half of life,
1:42.3	and a new series, a life of meaning, exploring our deepest questions and motivations.
1:50.0	All right, I'm going to tell it to you as it is. In my work, it sounds true. One of the greatest privileges I feel I have, one of the greatest joys for me is to get to speak with someone who has the depth, the life experience, and the ability to help so many people like Jim Hollis.
2:15.7	He puts us in touch with, I'm just going to say it how I experience it,
2:21.1	with the deepest longings of our soul and how to have the courage to act on those longings.
2:28.8	Here's my conversation with someone who I find is a terrific help for making meaning.
2:36.9	James Hollis.
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