by Lissa Rankin | Oct 10, 2018 | Inner Pilot Light, Mental Health
I was raised as a young girl to be a good Methodist. Anger was not an acceptable emotion in my religion or in my family. Neither my father nor my mother expressed healthy anger. Instead, my mother grew resentful from over-giving and her resentment turned sour as...
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 18, 2012 | Physical Health
Someone hurt you and you’re holding a grudge. You feel a well-deserved sense of righteous indignation. You’re in the right. That someone was wrong. You have every right to feel the way you do. Anyone who heard the story would take your side. Maybe she abandoned you....
