About

Me In 30 Seconds:

I’m fired up about healing our broken health care system, one empowered patient and one conscious health care provider at a time.

I’m obsessed with helping patients and health care providers view illness, not from a place of victimhood, but as an opportunity for awakening.

I doctor not just bodies, but souls.

I write pretty much every day and I love it as much as life itself.

I believe that the key to living a long, vital life is an optimistic attitude, the willingness to love expansively and receive love in return from a wide circle of people close to you, engaging in work that lights you up, tapping into Source, allowing your creativity to flow boundlessly, being unapologetically who you really are, moving your body in ways that make you smile, and drinking as much green juice as you can.

I relish helping visionaries find their callings and realize their visions.

I’m inspired by people brave enough to transmute adversity into spiritual growth, vulnerable enough to let their imperfections be witnessed, and courageous enough to keep their hearts open, even when those hearts are at risk of getting hurt.

I’m moved by hiking in redwood forests, skiing in fresh powder, live music of all types, and dancing barefoot.

Stuff That Would Make It On My Resume, If I Had One

I practiced as an OB/GYN physician for eight years, then started a mind-body medicine practice before leaving clinical medicine in 2010 to follow my dream to heal health care.

In 2009, I founded the community blog OwningPink.com, where over 40 inspiring bloggers write about how to be healthy in your relationships, your professional life, your spiritual life, your creative life, your sex life, your financial life, your physical and mental health, and more.

In 2012, I moved my personal blog to LissaRankin.com, where I blog about living and loving fearlessly, how to heal our health care system, and pretty much anything else I feel like writing about.

In 2013, my team launched the Whole Health Medicine Institute to train doctors (and in 2014, nurses, alternative and other health care providers, and life coaches) about mind-body medicine. Faculty members include Martha Beck, Christiane Northrup, Bernie Siegel, Larry Dossey, Bruce Lipton, Bridgette Boudreau, Steve Sisgold, and Jon Rasmussen.

In 2013, we also launched HealHealthCareNow.com, where those as passionate about healing health care as I am can unite and let their freak flags fly.

I have written three books – Encaustic Art, What’s Up Down There, and most recently the New York Times bestseller, Mind Over Medicine, and I’m currently working on my fourth, The Fear Cure (Hay House, 2015.)

I love rocking the stage at TEDx events (watch my first TEDx talk here and my second one here), Hay House I Can Do It conferences, health conferences, and pretty much anywhere else people are brave enough to give me a microphone.

I’m a professional artist who paints mostly with beeswax and most recently, acrylic paints (you can see my art here.)

I make a mean raw chocolate, and I’m super grateful you’re here reading about me!

For the Press

Short Bio:

Lissa Rankin, MD is a mind-body medicine physician, founder of the Whole Health Medicine Institute training program for physicians and other health care providers, and the New York Times bestselling author of Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself.  She is on a grass roots mission to heal health care, while empowering you to heal yourself.  Lissa blogs at LissaRankin.com and also created two online communities - HealHealthCareNow.com and OwningPink.com. She is also the author of two other books, a professional artist, an amateur ski bum, and an avid hiker. Lissa lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband and daughter. 

Long Bio:

Lissa Rankin, MD is a mind-body medicine physician, founder of the Whole Health Medicine Institute training program for physicians and other health care providers, and the New York Times bestselling author of Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself.  She is on a grass roots mission to put the “care” back in health care, and to heal our broken health care system – one doctor and one patient at a time.

Lissa blogs at LissaRankin.com and also created two online communities - HealHealthCareNow.com and OwningPink.com. She is also the author of two other books. Lissa’s work will be the focus of an upcoming public television special that will appear on PBS, she has delivered two popular TEDx talks, and she is on the speaking circuit with Hay House’s “I Can Do It” conferences. Lissa’s work has also been featured on over 30 television shows, over 50 radio shows, and in publications such as O Magazine, the New York Times, Health, Women’s Health, Forbes, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Fox News, Huffington Post, People, Woman’s Day, WebMD, and CNN.