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You're listening to Insights at the Edge.

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Today my guest is Jean-Shnotob guest is Gene Schnodobolen. Gene Schnodibolen is a union analyst

and clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. She's an

internationally renowned lecturer and workshop leader and

author who draws from spiritual, feminist, union, medical, and personal well springs of experience.

Gene is the author of goddesses in every woman and the Tao of psychology,

and her latest audio book from Sounds True is called Like a Tree, where she invites us to explore

our sacred relationship with trees and to uncover the hidden wisdom they have to offer. In this episode of Insights at the Edge,

Chien and I spoke about the characteristics of tree people and the wisdom that is held in ancient trees. We also talked about what it might mean to

circumambulate this self and how that circumambulation might have something in common with circumambulating around a tree.

And finally, about what it might mean to know one's own assignment in the world.

Here's a very heartfelt and inspiring conversation with Jean-Shinoda Bolin.

Jean in your new book you talk about something called tree people. What are the

characteristics of someone who might be a tree person?

Well, I started to call people, tree people versus not tree people,

when the issue was a tree that was in my front yard that belonged

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