by Lissa Rankin | Mar 11, 2014 | Relationships
In my personal life, I keep dancing around the concept of heart protection. Living an open-hearted life comes with so many gifts that it seems worth making the heart vulnerable. But how do we live open-hearted lives without being at risk of feeling hurt or...
by Lissa Rankin | Nov 26, 2013 | Relationships
It’s easy to talk about opening your heart when everyone is getting along. When you’re with your best friend, who has just built a cocoon around you because you just got your heartbroken, and your bestie then climbs into the cocoon to hold you in her arms like a...
by Lissa Rankin | Oct 31, 2013 | Spirituality
You can’t change something by making it wrong. You can only effect change if you can wake up the sleeping people, and in order for them to hear you, you must have compassion for how they got where they are. Think of all the truly effective change agents. They...
by Lissa Rankin | Aug 22, 2013 | Mental Health
While I was in Fargo, North Dakota delivering my third TEDx talk (you can watch my other two here and here, I facilitated a community conversation about health care with Dr. Susan Mathison, founder of Catalyst Medical Center, who is also one of the doctors in my...
by Lissa Rankin | Sep 17, 2012 | Inner Pilot Light
If you’re on my mailing list or follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you know that I recently launched a new program I called Inner Pilot Light group coaching. Launching this program was a big risk for me. Not only was it to be a live program, when all the other...
