by Lissa Rankin | Feb 19, 2016 | Relationships, Spirituality, Work Life Purpose
I have two friends who are trying to do beautiful things in the world. One is an ardent environmentalist who really passionately yearns to save the biosphere and protect the planet. The other is a social worker serving abused, abandoned, neglected, traumatized...
by Lissa Rankin | Dec 14, 2015 | Spirituality, Work Life Purpose
About five years ago, things that seemed like miracles—things my mind couldn’t explain—started happening around me. Patients were having “spontaneous” remissions. Synchronicities were unfolding around me as if I had been swept up in some current of magic. Spiritual...
by Lissa Rankin | Sep 19, 2013 | Work Life Purpose
How can you tell if you’ve found your calling? As a doctor who was called to medicine at a young age but then wound up disillusioned by the system, questioning my calling, I’ve asked myself this question a lot. It’s been a long strange trip- first leaving medicine,...
by Lissa Rankin | Sep 12, 2013 | Work Life Purpose
You are a hero. I am a hero. We are all, every single one of us, on what Joseph Campbell calls “a hero’s journey.” We all have within us a Nelson Mandela or Joan of Arc or Luke Skywalker or Mother Teresa or Harry Potter. Like all of these classic heroes, we are all...
by Lissa Rankin | Oct 11, 2012 | Inner Pilot Light, Spirituality
It’s been an enormous month for me. I was inducted into the Association of Transformational Leadership and that led to a slew of potential business opportunities that came rushing in. One guy wants to help me train physicians in the Whole Health approach to patient...
