by Lissa Rankin | May 19, 2017 | Mental Health, Spirituality
When I came back from Bali after the US presidential election, I took a several month hiatus from Facebook because I couldn’t tolerate all the hateful, polarizing energy I felt on both sides of the left/right divide. Even off Facebook, I felt pain in my community. I...
by Lissa Rankin | Feb 27, 2017 | Relationships
I first heard the term “generous listening” almost ten years ago, when I took a workshop for doctors with Rachel Naomi Remen, MD. She told us that most doctors don’t listen generously. They’re always in their heads, trying to fix someone, rushing to a diagnosis and...
by Lissa Rankin | Feb 1, 2017 | Mental Health
Stuff hurts right now. A lot of stuff hurts. If you’re not feeling at least some pain right now, you’ve probably numbed out with an addiction, psychiatric medication, dissociation from your body and your emotions, or maybe even some form of spiritual bypass, like...
by Lissa Rankin | Nov 25, 2015 | Relationships, Spirituality
Last Thanksgiving, I wrote about Radical Gratitude, and this Thanksgiving I feel it calling me again. Usually, when we talk about gratitude, we express gratitude for our blessings. I’m grateful for my beautiful daughter Siena. I’m grateful that I live by the ocean...
by Lissa Rankin | Sep 21, 2015 | Relationships, Spirituality
Communing with the Pueblo ancestors at Bandelier National Monument In the past couple of weeks, three people I love dearly died. Two were quite young and died tragically. Scott Dinsmore Scott was a beloved friend whose hand I held as he skyrocketed to very quick,...
