by Lissa Rankin | Feb 14, 2018 | Inner Pilot Light, Relationships
Dear gorgeous, holy, radiant YOU, Let me just start with the obvious. Darling…I adore you. You are the light of my life. Well…let me reframe that. As your Inner Pilot Light, I suppose I am the light of YOURS. But this is no burden for me! It is my raison d’être,...
by Lissa Rankin | Jan 30, 2018 | Inner Pilot Light, Relationships
The way I hurdled headlong into what I thought was love three years ago is so clichéd that I won’t even bother describing the intoxicating fireworks. It was a star-crossed, impossible relationship from the get-go, a doomed love affair heading for a crash and burn we...
by Lissa Rankin | Jan 15, 2018 | Relationships
What would happen on this planet if every single human had the capacity to reach out to someone very different and ask, “What’s it like to be you?” What if the oppressed black man who was unjustly imprisoned could reach out to the cop who wrongfully arrested him. What...
by Lissa Rankin | Jan 11, 2018 | Relationships
For some reason, I am someone who attracts people who need to tell their most painful, gut-wrenching stories, who need to have their story lovingly heard and witnessed and honored without shaming or judging or fixing. People tell me stories that break my heart,...
by Lissa Rankin | Dec 18, 2017 | Relationships
This morning, a friend was telling me about how someone she loves treats her. Her stories sounded painful and brutalizing, even abusive. I wondered why she tolerated such apparent disrespect. She was describing someone who obviously doesn’t appreciate the gift of this...
