One-On-One With Dr. Lissa Rankin
TRANSFORMATIONAL MENTORING
Find & Fulfill Your Calling
Do you feel called to make a difference in a world that needs your vision, ideas, and love- but find yourself stuck between your vision and its reality?
Do you feel conflicted in your decision-making, stuck between polarized parts inside that can't resolve their inner battles?
Are you longing for a way to move beyond helplessness, hopelessness, and powerlessness to do what you can, love how you know best, and contribute your activism to a world in need of your love- without collapsing?
You're not alone.
The world is changing and the future is uncertain and scary, but times of uncertainty can also be potent times for transformation, especially when we have the right guidance and support. Many of us would prefer not to face the darkness, meanness, and rise in authoritarianism our world is facing. It's activating for parts that have been overpowered in the past. But that doesn't mean we should collapse into despair, give up our vision of a more just world, or put our creative parts into exile.
These are alchemical times, times to use your creativity, flexibility, and gumption to turn shit into gold and transform yourself and impact others in the process.
Your love, your gifts, and your visionary ideas and businesses are needed, now more than ever. Focusing your attention on fulfilling your calling and living out your life's purpose can help counteract feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, and despair, potentially improving your mental and physical health.
We creatives, entrepreneurs, activists, healers, therapists, writers, poets, spiritual leaders, and visionaries are dangerous. There's a good reason oppressors ban our books, destroy our artwork, blacklist our songs, prevent access to our healing gifts, and try to limit our self-expression!
Lissa says, "For over a decade, I've walked alongside visionaries like you—writers carrying untold stories, mission-driven creators, activists looking to bring their gifts and wisdom into the world, healthcare innovators yearning to transform the system, healers and coaches ready to expand their impact, and entrepreneurs seeking to touch lives through their work.
As someone who's navigated multiple transformations—from conventional MD to integrative medicine pioneer, from trauma expert to bestselling author, from healthcare provider to gallery-represented artist—I understand the complexity of following your calling while building something sustainable."
INTRODUCING TRANSFORMATIONAL MENTORING
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." — Plutarch
Since 2010, Lissa Rankin has been mentoring visionary activists, transformational health care leaders and therapists, creative writers, and aspiring authors, artists with a purpose, and others who have a strong sense of mission and calling, but are struggling to realize their vision.
After achieving success in a conventional medical career, an integrative medicine practice, an expert in the traumatology field, an online influencer, keynote speaker, workshop leader, author of seven books, writing teacher, and artist with gallery representation at ten galleries as an encaustic painter, Lissa has a variety of gifts she can offer to those who seek out one-on-one mentoring support.
Although Lissa is no longer accepting patients as a medical doctor, Lissa is now accepting new clients on a first-come, first serve basis for one-on-one IFS-informed mentoring related to business mentoring, guidance with book-writing and publishing, health care coaching, and relationship coaching.
These sessions can be designed based on your unique needs as a client, as long as you’re clear how you wish to use your time.
"Healing is not just about medicine. Healing is about holding space for someone to find their own wholeness." — Rachel Naomi Remen, MD
The following offerings Are Available:
- Transforming your vision into a thriving business, book, or creative offering that helps people while fulfilling and sustaining you.
- Learning tools for turning your vision into books, teleclasses, workshops, public speaking, a podcast, social media, or other avenues for broadcasting your vision.
- Walking the path of finding and fulfilling your true calling.
- Becoming aware of whatever unhealed traumas might sabotage your mission if left untreated.
- Doing what it takes to make your relationships healthy so you can have the support you’ll need to fulfill your purpose.
If you’re seeking support for any of these issues, you’re welcome to enter into a mentoring relationship with Lissa.
Mentoring Benefits ...
- IFS-informed coaching methodology
- Evidence-based healing practices
- Creative visioning exercises
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Strategic business planning frameworks
- Writing and creative development techniques
- Trauma-informed relationship strategies
"The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head." — William Osler
Mentoring FEATURES ...
- 50 or 80 minutes sessions
- By phone or Zoom
- Sessions can be recorded
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Pre-session reflection questionnaire
- Customized action planning
- Post-session summary and resources
TRANSFORMATIONAL MENTORING
Find & Fulfill Your Calling
On-on-One Mentoring with Dr. Lissa Rankin
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Dr. Lissa Rankin
Lissa Rankin, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Mind Over Medicine and six other books, is a former OB/GYN physician, founder of the Whole Health Medicine Institute training program for doctors and therapists, radical remission researcher, and founder of the health equity, trauma healing based non-profit Heal At Last. After leaving her job in conventional medicine in 2007, Lissa began experimenting in her integrative medicine practice with what really helps resolve symptoms in people with chronic illness who have failed to improve with either conventional medicine or alternative medicine. All roads led to the same conclusion: People who are not responding to other treatments often have untreated, unhealed trauma, and treating that trauma can sometimes lead to seemingly miraculous radical remissions.
Upon realizing this epiphany, Lissa became a passionate ambassador for raising awareness about the importance of treating trauma as both preventive medicine and medical treatment for hard-to-treat mental and physical illnesses. Because old school psychoanalysis (talk therapy) and therapies like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) do not effectively treat trauma on their own, and because medication, surgeries, and even most alternative medicine or spiritual healing techniques, such as acupuncture, meditation, or energy healing, only treat the symptoms of trauma,
Lissa became a devoted student of many forms of trauma therapy, including Richard Schwartz, Ph.D.’s Internal Family Systems (IFS), Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing, Lawrence Heller’s NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM), and Asha Clinton, Ph.D.’s Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT.) She also teaches about spiritual bypassing recovery for those who have used spirituality as a way to avoid healing their trauma.
In addition to her public health advocacy and health care reform activism, Lissa leads workshops- online, at US retreat centers like Esalen, 1440, Omega, and Kripalu, and internationally. During the pandemic, Lissa played a public role in debunking “Conspirituality,” the Covid denialism, anti-vaccination propaganda, and conspiracy theories promoted by many wellness, yoga, mind-body medicine, alternative medicine, and spirituality influencers who got “red-pilled” during 2020.
This shakeout anchored her as a physician influencer to trust who is grounded in science, open to the mystical, spiritually aware, and trauma-informed. Lissa is currently co-writing her eighth book with Harvard psychiatrist Jeffrey Rediger, MD, MDiv about the link between relational trauma and medical illness and how healthy boundaries and Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy can help reverse diseases related to nervous system dysregulation caused by relational trauma.
Lissa lives with her partner Jeff Rediger and her housemate April in the Bay Area, now that her daughter has flown the nest. She thrives on daily hikes in nature, dancing with her Bay Area dance community, singing, writing, DJ'ing music whenever she can, and healthy gourmet cooking.
