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 | 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 | May 27, 2016 | Relationships, Spirituality
For most of my life, love fit into boxes. There was “family love,” the kind of love you have for your mother or father or child. There was “romantic love,” the love of your soul mate or lover. There was love for animals, the kind of pure, devotional love you might...
by Lissa Rankin | Dec 9, 2014 | Relationships
I haven’t written much about it publicly because it’s been so intense and confusing and extraordinary, but for almost a year, I have been involved in what others describe to me as a “twin flame” or “soul twin” relationship. Dennis and I are not a “couple” in any...
