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TRANSFORMATIONAL MENTORING
Find & Fulfill Your Calling
On-on-One Mentoring with Dr. Lissa Rankin
Lissa is currently accepting a limited number of new clients for one-on-one mentoring, offering IFS-informed guidance that spans business strategy, creative development, healthcare innovation, and personal transformation. Each session is tailored to your specific journey and goals, whether you’re writing your first book, starting a visionary business, launching a revolutionary healthcare practice, or bringing your healing gifts to a wider audience.
DATING FROM SELF
The Heart Part – Finding Connection Without Compromise.
If you’ve been dating, looking for new friends, or generally thinking about putting yourself out there to make new relational connections, this weekend Zoom workshop is for you!
Imagine how much fun it could be for your parts if you help them feel appreciated, known, validated, and understood when you prepare to go on a date with someone else?
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The Best “Get To Know Someone New” Line Ever
I’m new to Sonoma County and actively in pursuit of new friends, new community, and a new sense of belonging. After 17 years of feeling...
What Are Your Self-Led Criteria For New Friends Or Dating Partners?
I just moved away from the community I’ve loved for 17 years to follow my partner, Jeff, to a new job in Sonoma County. That means losing daily...
Why Being Good At Relationships Is Like Tennis (& Why There’s No Shame At Being Unskilled In Relationships)
It’s not your fault if nobody ever taught you how to be in a healthy relationship. If you grew up in a house with at least one selfabsorbed...
Why Telling Your Story Can Help You Get Justice & Heal Injustices
When it comes to healing, justice is big. Many trauma survivors struggle because their childhoods were so unjust, and then because history...
I Can’t Think Of Anything But Those Immigrants
I have a lot going on in my personal life right now. I'm moving out of the Muir Beach home I've inhabited for 17 years of my life, the...
Which Parts Show Up Around New People?
As I explained in my blog about IFS-informed Dating and Dating The Day Democracy Died, I learned a ton about myself and my own parts by going on...
Dating The Day Democracy Almost Died
When I embarked upon my online dating experiment in January 2021 and went on about thirty first dates, I took advantage of the opportunity to...
IFS-Informed Dating: Getting To Know Your “Parts” That Show Up When Dating
Before the pandemic, I’d been intentionally single because I was in a phase of trauma healing recovery that needed me to focus on my own needs...
Do You Or Your Kids Have Too Much Or Not Enough Entitlement? (Take The Quiz)
Kids can grow up with developmental wounds that put them on one end of the unhealthy entitlement spectrum or the other. On one end, kids grow up...
The Best “Get To Know Someone New” Line Ever
I’m new to Sonoma County and actively in pursuit of new friends, new community, and a new sense of belonging. After 17 years of feeling very embedded in my beloved Muir Beach, I feel oddly vulnerable in a town where I barely know anyone. With my new empty...
What Are Your Self-Led Criteria For New Friends Or Dating Partners?
I just moved away from the community I’ve loved for 17 years to follow my partner, Jeff, to a new job in Sonoma County. That means losing daily contact with my neighbors, including my next door neighbor, who does IFS parts processing with me over coffee. It means...
Why Being Good At Relationships Is Like Tennis (& Why There’s No Shame At Being Unskilled In Relationships)
It’s not your fault if nobody ever taught you how to be in a healthy relationship. If you grew up in a house with at least one selfabsorbed narcissistic parent who didn’t model a healthy, balanced relationship for you. Or even worse, if one of your caregivers was a...
Why Telling Your Story Can Help You Get Justice & Heal Injustices
When it comes to healing, justice is big. Many trauma survivors struggle because their childhoods were so unjust, and then because history repeats itself, this often sets them up for relationships and jobs where the injustices play out again. And then there are the...
I Can’t Think Of Anything But Those Immigrants
I have a lot going on in my personal life right now. I'm moving out of the Muir Beach home I've inhabited for 17 years of my life, the home where I raised my daughter, who has now left me with an empty nest that is not the home I raised her in. My book edits...
Which Parts Show Up Around New People?
As I explained in my blog about IFS-informed Dating and Dating The Day Democracy Died, I learned a ton about myself and my own parts by going on about thirty first dates before I wound up with my current partner Jeffrey Rediger, who I met at a trauma conference we...