How many of us are still waiting for permission to be who we are?

In this essential guidebook for anyone at a crossroads in life, bestselling author Dr. James Hollis presents 21 powerful topics of self-inquiry created to energize you on your journey to reclaim personal authority, authenticity, and integrity.

Available at booksellers everywhere & also available as an audiobook

“James Hollis is the most lucid thinker I know about the complexities and complexes that interfere with living a full life.”

—Stephen Dunn, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet

“Reading [this book] is to be reminded that it is possible to be fully human, because and not in spite of, our full part of light and shadow.”

—Jan Bauer, Jungian analyst and author of Impossible Love: Or Why the Heart Must Go Wrong

"This book is an extraordinary gift to all of us grappling with the ‘second half of life’—free of all platitudes and false comforts, but full of sustenance, humor, and tools for navigating the journey.”

—Oliver Burkeman, Guardian columnist and author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking

James Hollis, PhD

JAMES HOLLIS, PhD, is a Jungian analyst and executive director of the Jung Society of Washington, DC. He is a bestselling author whose 14 books include Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life, The Eden Project, and What Matters Most. For more, visit jameshollis.net.

"As children we all asked the elemental questions: Who am I, who are you, why are we here, what are we to do, and whither to we go? These questions are mostly forgotten, pushed into the suburbs of the busy metropolis of life. But they rumble on in the unconscious of us all."

—James Hollis