by Lissa Rankin | Nov 19, 2012 | Mental Health
“Mama… I’m BORED.” “You have an entire bedroom full of toys, a whole art table full of art supplies, a hundred books you could read, and four kids in the neighborhood dying to play with you. How can you possibly be bored?” It’s enough to make every mom roll her eyes....
by Lissa Rankin | Oct 29, 2012 | Physical Health, Uncategorized
In this blog series, I’ve been exploring the relationship between fear, anxiety, and how it leads us to overmedicalize health care. In Part 1 of this blog series, I discussed The Shocking Dangers of Medical Overdiagnosis & Overtreatment. In Part 2, I shared How To...
by Lissa Rankin | Aug 23, 2012 | Money, Work Life Purpose
When I first met women’s financial guru Barbara Stanny, author of Overcoming Underearning and Secrets of Six-Figure Women, she was in the process of researching her next book Sacred Success. As part of the research for this book, she was interviewing 7-figure women,...
by Lissa Rankin | Aug 13, 2012 | Relationships
When I started working on my latest book about how fear makes you sick and how courage helps you heal, I had the nerve to tell Matt I was writing the book for fearful people like him. (Note to self: Keep some thoughts private.) Not surprisingly, Matt got offended and...
by Lissa Rankin | Jul 26, 2012 | Mental Health, Spirituality
I recently met with a group of doctors who gather at Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen’s house monthly to discuss a variety of topics and seek meaning in medicine and in the human experience. The topic of the month was “Safety,” our quest for it, our desire for it and, as we...
