by Nicolay Kreidler | Jan 12, 2023 | Sexuality, Spirituality, Trust, Uncategorized, Work Life Purpose
Since I’m gearing up to teach the Memoir As Medicine class with Nancy Aronie, I wanted to take a moment to write you all a love story. It’s about my long term friend and now romantic partner, who you all may know from his work as the medical director of...
by Lissa Rankin | Feb 28, 2018 | Relationships, Spirituality
At the beginning of 2018, I was seriously considering entering a monastic phase of life. After three divorces and five years of messy relationships, I’ve become weary of the energetic exhaustion I associate with romantic relationship. Having ended my last romance in...
by Lissa Rankin | Dec 18, 2017 | Relationships
This morning, a friend was telling me about how someone she loves treats her. Her stories sounded painful and brutalizing, even abusive. I wondered why she tolerated such apparent disrespect. She was describing someone who obviously doesn’t appreciate the gift of this...
by Lissa Rankin | Nov 4, 2017 | Relationships
Today is my beloved mother’s funeral. In honor of this final memorial, may I share with you the eulogy I wrote for her. When my father was dying in 2006 from a brain tumor, I wrote his eulogy before he died and read it to him. It touched him deeply to...
by Lissa Rankin | Sep 25, 2017 | Mental Health, Spirituality
Before January 2014, I had never heard of the term “kundalini” other than vague references to kundalini yoga, which I associated with people wearing white turbans and breathing hard. But on my daughter’s 8th birthday, I experienced something that my medical knowledge...
