by Lissa Rankin | Jan 24, 2022 | COVID, Healing, Mental Health, Whole Health Medicine Institute
Because I used to be a doctor and because many of my friends, colleagues, and clients are doctors and therapists, I have my finger on the pulse of what it’s been like to be a front-line Covid doctor or front-line mental health worker during a global pandemic....
by Lissa Rankin | Dec 21, 2021 | Healing, Mental Health, Relationships, Spiritual Bypassing, Spirituality, Trust
As we approach the Winter Solstice, the darkest day of the year, I find myself sitting with and welcoming the darkness, in myself and in the world. I just finished reading the galley of My Grandmother’s Hands author Resmaa Menakem’s new book The Quaking of America,...
by Lissa Rankin | Nov 17, 2021 | Healing, Mental Health, Relationships, Spiritual Bypassing, Spirituality, Trust
When we look back at history, we see that the greatest catalysts for change, especially in social justice realms, rarely get to enjoy the fruits of their labor. Usually, as with Martin Luther King, Jr and his “I have a dream” vision, it’s quite the...
by Lissa Rankin | Sep 29, 2015 | Mental Health, Spirituality
There’s a school of thought in spiritual circles that ascribes to the idea that everything that happens in our lives—the blissful things, the growth edge things, the horrid things—all happens with purpose. This spiritual teaching suggests that everything...
by Lissa Rankin | Jun 24, 2014 | Spirituality
We’ve been taught that in order to get what we desire, we need to either force our desires into being through hard work, sweat, and tears. Or we need to apply the Law Of Attraction, whereby we visualize what we desire, say affirmations that affirm that we...
