April 11th, 2018 By Lissa Rankin, MD Guest writer for Wake Up World In 2010, my soul brother Nick Polizzi dared to take eight sick people who had failed to respond to Western medicine to...
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Lissa Rankin, MD, is a mind-body medicine physician, founder of the Whole Health Medicine Institute training program for physicians and health care providers, and the New York Times bestselling author of “Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself”. She is on a grass roots mission to heal health care, while empowering you to heal yourself.
Connect with Lissa at www.LissaRankin.com
Love Your Enemy
March 21st, 2018 By Lissa Rankin Guest writer for Wake Up World So much of what I’ve been writing about — especially since the election times of 2016 and the aftermath of what...
The Long Arc of Love
By Lissa Rankin Guest writer for Wake Up World A Brutiful Love Story The way I hurdled headlong into what I thought was love three years ago is so clichéd that I won’t even...
15 Gifts for Your Pleasure Toolbox
January 28th, 2018 By Lissa Rankin Guest writer for Wake Up World Many of us are well versed in tolerating pain. Especially in spiritual circles, we may even gravitate toward painful...
Are We Ready for Truth and Reconciliation Around Sexual Violence? #MeToo
December 18th, 2017 By Lissa Rankin Guest writer for Wake Up World A teenage Icelandic woman is raped by her Australian boyfriend after she’s had too much to drink. In his own...
Free Yourself From the Narcissist/Empath Pattern
By Lissa Rankin Guest writer for Wake Up World “The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image...
Find Your Soul Tribe
By Lissa Rankin Guest writer for Wake Up World Like many of you, I was a child raised in the United States in the era of John Wayne and James Dean, when the rugged individualist was prized as...
The Trauma That Is Initiating Me
September 8th, 2017 By Lissa Rankin Guest writer for Wake Up World My dear friends, I just survived one of the most intense ordeals of my life. A series of traumas—one after the other...
Spiritual Bypassing — We Need to Hurt in Order to Heal
By Lissa Rankin, MD Guest writer for Wake Up World Ten years ago, when I quit my job in the hospital, I had just been through a series of traumas and I was hurting so badly I didn’t know...
The Unmistakable Link Between Unhealed Trauma and Physical Illness
By Lissa Rankin, MD Guest writer for Wake Up World Most of us experience trauma at some level, not just war veterans who witness and experience horrific terror, but simply by growing up as vulnerable...
What’s It Like To Be You?
By Lissa Rankin Guest writer for Wake Up World When I came back from Bali after the US presidential election, I took a several month hiatus from Facebook because I couldn’t tolerate all the...
Satisfying Our Emotional Needs Without Being Codependent
By Lissa Rankin Guest writer for Wake Up World A deep cultural blind spot has recently come into my awareness, and it’s the kind of blind spot that, once you see it, you can’t unsee it...
