by Karoline | Feb 15, 2023 | IFS, Mental Health, Relationships
Since the Trump era, there’s been a nationwide renaissance in public discourse about malignant narcissism, and many of us have taken off our spiritual bypassing, rose-colored glasses to spot the dangers of trying to relate with people who are very blended with...
by Nicolay Kreidler | Jan 12, 2023 | Sexuality, Spirituality, Trust, Uncategorized, Work Life Purpose
Since I’m gearing up to teach the Memoir As Medicine class with Nancy Aronie, I wanted to take a moment to write you all a love story. It’s about my long term friend and now romantic partner, who you all may know from his work as the medical director of...
by Lissa Rankin | Jul 30, 2021 | Corona Virus, Dick Schwartz, Environment, IFS, Muse, Relationships, Spirituality, Trust
Having just come back from Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island of Hawaii, I am full of fire and tracking others whose fire is bubbling up over Covid vaccination holdouts- and how their unwillingness to cooperate with a mass humanitarian effort to tame a global...
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 | Mar 15, 2018 | Relationships, Spirituality
So much of what I’ve been blogging about, especially since the election times of 2016 and the aftermath of what has followed in our political climate, the #MeToo movement, and many other divisive issues, has focused on dissolving the story of separation and bringing...
