by Lissa Rankin | Feb 23, 2023 | Dick Schwartz, IFS, Mental Health, Relationships, Social Justice, Spiritual Bypassing, Spirituality
Spiritual bypassing, a phrase coined by John Welwood and defined as a kind of spiritualized conflict avoidance that demonizes certain natural emotions like anger and can cause us to bypass our need for healing trauma, our activism, and our pain, runs rampant in...
by Lissa Rankin | Mar 23, 2022 | Creativity, Healing, Mental Health, Relationships, Spirituality, Trust
Synchrodestiny got hold of me recently. I had just gotten off the phone with Esalen Institute, planning my first post-pandemic 5 day Sacred Medicine workshop at Esalen in May and a month-long Burnout Recovery For Health Care Workers & Therapists in the fall,...
by Lissa Rankin | Mar 14, 2022 | COVID, Environment, Healing, Mental Health, Relationships, Social Justice, Trust
As I watch the horrifying news in Ukraine, as hospitals are bombed and unarmed civilians, some of them children, are killed, I can’t help wondering about the question I asked every healer, guru, spiritual leader, mind-body doctor, and trauma therapist during...
by Lissa Rankin | Mar 7, 2022 | Environment, Healing, Mental Health, Relationships, Social Justice, Trust
It guts me- and so many of you- to watch the violence, to see the innocent people suffering, to gaze in horror as a bully abuses his fellow humans, to witness a colonizer invading, feeling entitled to a country he is not entitled to dominate. The human toll is...
by Lissa Rankin | Feb 16, 2022 | COVID, Healing, Mental Health, Relationships, Spiritual Bypassing, Spirituality, Trust, Whole Health Medicine Institute
Although there is a grain of truth in the teachings, law of attraction folks put too much emphasis on thinking yourself well without acknowledging that illness is multifactorial, complex, and your thoughts, beliefs, and feelings are only a part of what impacts your...
