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Blog postWhat Helps & What Doesn’t Help When Someone You Love Is Sick, Suffering, Grieving A Loss, or in Physical or Emotional Pain? Someone I love just found out a loved one is very sick, afraid, and in pain. He knows that it’s part of my work t
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Blog postWhen I interviewed for my OB/GYN residency at the prestigious Northwestern University program, which was my first choice, I was told very clearly that Northwestern’s OB/GYN department supports a woman’s right to choose whether she keeps a pregnancy or not, and that if I did not support reproductive rights for women, Northwestern probably wasn’t the right fit for me. My second choice was Harvard’s Brigham
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Blog postIn the original draft of my new book Sacred Medicine, the book opened with a legitimate, medically provable radical remission story about a child with a life-threatening illness conventional medicine had given up on. In desperation, the parents of the child, who were skeptical physicians, sought out the intervention of a Sacred Medicine healer- […]
The post The Difference Between Helpful Hope & Disheartening “Not Good Enough To Deserve A Miracle” Messaging About Healing When Al -
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Those of you in the wellness world might have noticed a curious polarization between “germ theory” and “terrain theory” advocates during the pandemic. But as I write in my book Sacred Medicine: A Doctor’s Quest To Unravel The Mysteries Of Healing, we can resolve this argument once and for all if we entertain this idea not as an either/or binary, but as a both/and paradox of healing.
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Synchrodestiny got hold of me recently. I had just gotten off the phone with Esalen Institute, planning my first post-pandemic 5 day Sacred Medicine workshop at Esalen in May and a month-long Burnout Recovery For Health Care Workers & Therapists in the fall, when my phone rang. It was Nancy Slonim Aronie, my very first Esalen teacher, who I wrote about in my book The Anatomy of a Calling, and who taught the Writing From The Heart workshop that I credit with making me a real -
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As I watch the horrifying news in Ukraine, as hospitals are bombed and unarmed civilians, some of them children, are killed, I can’t help wondering about the question I asked every healer, guru, spiritual leader, mind-body doctor, and trauma therapist during the ten years of my research for my new book Sacred Medicine. It was a metaphysical question, an attempt to make meaning out of tragedies I just couldn’t fathom.
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Blog postIt guts me- and so many of you- to watch the violence, to see the innocent people suffering, to gaze in horror as a bully abuses his fellow humans, to witness a colonizer invading, feeling entitled to a country he is not entitled to dominate. The human toll is unconscionable. The entitlement, unthinkable. Even many […]
The post I Stand With Ukraine. I’m Also Unsettled By How Much White Lives Seem To Matter When Countless BIPOC Lives Are Still Threatened first appeared on Lissa Rankin. -
Blog postAlthough there is a grain of truth in the teachings, law of attraction folks put too much emphasis on thinking yourself well without acknowledging that illness is multifactorial, complex, and your thoughts, beliefs, and feelings are only a part of what impacts your health. This oversimplified and distorted way of thinking suggests that if you’re […]
The post Debunking The Law Of Attraction (Plus A More Empathic Sacred Medicine Healing Tool) first appeared on Lissa Rankin. -
Blog postSometimes we get sick, and conventional medicine can cure us lickety-split. And thank God for those cures and for the doctors who deliver them. I was once one of those doctors, and it felt so satisfying when one of those medical cures could ease the suffering of someone in distress. But if you practice medicine […]
The post Let’s Not Polarize Into The Science Camp and the Anti-Science Camp: I Stand For The Camp Of No Camps first appeared on Lissa Rankin. -
Blog postWhat 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 irrational attraction, sexual desire, eroticism, the false promise of unmet […]
The post What Is And Is Not Love? A Valentine’s Day Wish For All The Lovers, With Or Without Someone To Love first appeared on Lissa Rankin.
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What's Up Down There?: Questions You'd Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend
Sep 28, 2010
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Fertility, Pregnancy, and Childbirth: A Gynecologist Answers Your Most Important Questions
Aug 23, 2011
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