by Lissa Rankin | Feb 7, 2022 | COVID, Creativity, Healing, Medicine, Mental Health, Spirituality, Whole Health Medicine Institute
Rise Up, by Lissa Rankin & her daughter Mira Klein, encaustic on wood panel 18 x 18 To say that this has been a hard two years is literally the understatement of the century. Unless you were alive during the Spanish flu of 1918 or one of the World Wars or the...
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 | Jun 24, 2021 | IFS, Mental Health, Muse, Relationships, Sexuality, Whole Health Medicine Institute
In my life, one bright spot of blessing in the past crazy year has been a daily “parts check in” with my friend and former housemate Emma, who is an Internal Family Systems (IFS) practitioner who really gets the IFS model. We’ve been beautiful...
by Lissa Rankin | Jun 22, 2021 | Dick Schwartz, Environment, IFS, Mental Health, Relationships, Whole Health Medicine Institute
It sounds weird to say that trauma is hot right now, but it doesn’t take much to recognize that after a year of personal and collective trauma, conversations about healing trauma are everywhere. For example, I’m delighted that Oprah Winfrey and Bruce...
by Lissa Rankin | Jun 11, 2021 | Dick Schwartz, Environment, IFS, Mental Health, Physical Health, Relationships, Social Justice, Work Life Purpose
Last week, I had the great pleasure of co-teaching with IFS founder and trauma therapist Dick Schwartz, PhD in both our Healing With The Muse community and in our Rebirth 2021 class. I did something scary and brave during our time teaching together. I let Dick make me...
