Juicy Crones: Wonderful Older Women with Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.

Program Description

There are now some 43 million women in America over 50. With the help of goddess archetypes that every woman can cultivate within herself – older women can revolutionize the way they live and the way they are seen by society. Bolen suggests specific goddess archetypes that embody compassion, fierceness, humor and wisdom in older women. (Hosted by Justine Willis Toms)

A Jungian analyst and clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco, Bolen is the author of Goddesses in Every Woman (Harper, 1984), The Millionth Circle (Conari Press, 1999) and Goddesses in Older Women: Archetypes in Women Over 50 (HarperCollins, 2001).

Topics Explored in this Dialogue:

• Why older women are most able to make a difference on the planet
• Different qualities of wisdom as embodied by individual Goddesses
• How solitude connects us with the wisdom within
• What are the wonders of fierce and humorous Goddesses
• Which Goddesses represent compassion
• What is the difference between compassion and co-dependency

Program Number: 2852                 Host: Justine Willis Toms              Interview Date: 1/19/2001