by Lissa Rankin | Aug 2, 2025 | Dick Schwartz, IFS
By Lissa Rankin, MD, with IFS founder Dick Schwartz & IFS Institute CEO Katie Nelson IFS has grown so much so quickly, and more people than ever have heard about it and are interested in practicing it, which is great. IFS has been a game changer for my healing...
by Nicolay Kreidler | May 18, 2023 | Dick Schwartz, IFS, Mental Health, Spiritual Bypassing, Spirituality, Trust, Uncategorized
When I left the church at 18, and then again when I began pulling back from New Age spirituality once I learned about spiritual bypassing and its antidote, Internal Family Systems (IFS), I struggled with what I believed in. Did I believe there was a benevolent...
by Lissa Rankin | May 16, 2023 | IFS, Mental Health, Physical Health, Relationships, Sexuality, Social Justice, Spiritual Bypassing, Spirituality, Trust
Like many women- and like many children of both genders who grew up in religious upbringings- I was raised to be a good, nice, accommodating, compliant, sweet girl who was pleasing to authority figures and didn’t cause any trouble for teachers, pastors, or my...
by Lissa Rankin | May 10, 2023 | IFS, Mental Health, Physical Health, Relationships, Sexuality, Social Justice, Spiritual Bypassing, Spirituality, Trust
Right now, I’m sitting on the South Aegean Sea in Kos, Greece, where I was invited to help a group of German doctors renew their Hippocratic Oaths at the Asklepieion temple where Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, started a famous healing temple and his...
by Lissa Rankin | May 5, 2023 | IFS, Mental Health, Physical Health, Relationships, Sexuality, Social Justice, Spiritual Bypassing, Spirituality, Trust
Art by Mira Klein I’m preparing to teach a class called Becoming Unfuckwithable: Finding Your Sacred “No” So Your Yes Is A “Hell Yeah,” and as part of creating curriculum for that class, I’ve been pondering what makes people “fuckwithable” in the first place. Part of...
