by Lissa Rankin | Feb 14, 2022 | Creativity, Healing, Mental Health, Relationships, Spiritual Bypassing, Spirituality, Trust
What if love, or at least the “love” depicted in love songs and romantic comedies, is not actually love? What if what we typically refer to as love is an intoxicatingly intense boundary-less merging, a blissful brew of emotions concocted from a mysterious and often...
by Lissa Rankin | Feb 11, 2022 | COVID, Creativity, Healing, Medicine, Mental Health, Spirituality, Whole Health Medicine Institute
*Trigger alert: Emotional, physical, sexual, and financial abuse at the hands of those we entrust to help us heal when we are at our most vulnerable. I used to believe that doctors were heroes, if not gods. My father was one of those doctors I idolized, and at seven...
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 | Dec 21, 2021 | Healing, Mental Health, Relationships, Spiritual Bypassing, Spirituality, Trust
As we approach the Winter Solstice, the darkest day of the year, I find myself sitting with and welcoming the darkness, in myself and in the world. I just finished reading the galley of My Grandmother’s Hands author Resmaa Menakem’s new book The Quaking of America,...
