Lissa Rankin: Leaps of Faith in a Benevolent Universe

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Lissa Rankin is a physician, public speaker, and the founder of the Whole Health Medicine Institute. She is the New York Times bestselling author of Mind Over Medicine, The Fear Cure, and The Anatomy of a Calling. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon and Lissa speak on her incredible personal journey and how it led her to quit traditional OB/GYN medicine as an act of personal integrity. They talk about trusting one’s inner voices and developing the discernment necessary to know when it is time to take an intuitive leap. Finally, Lissa and Tami consider the ability to soften in the face of what might be otherwise overwhelming pain, and how an act of surrender can bring us into better alignment with all of life. (106 minutes)

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0:20.2	offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.
0:24.0	Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the edge. Today my guest is Lissa Rankin.
0:44.0	Lissa is a physician, speaker, mystic, and founder of the Whole Health Medicine
0:50.0	Institute where she and her team train physicians and other health care providers about
0:56.0	what LISA calls Whole Health.
0:59.2	After studying medicine at Duke, the University of South Florida, and Northwestern.
1:04.0	She opened an integrative medicine practice
1:07.0	after eight years as an OBGYN in San Diego.
1:11.0	She is the New York Times best-selling author of Mind Over Medicine, The Fear Cure, and a new book, The Anatomy of a Calling.
1:21.0	LISA also has starred in two National Public. of a and online workshops and retreats.
1:33.0	Today on Insights at the Edge,
1:35.0	Lissa and I spoke about her journey
1:38.0	from working as a traditional OBGYN
1:41.0	to being led to quit her job as an act of personal integrity and the incredible life of
1:47.8	discovery that has unfolded. We also talked about hearing voices of guidance and how to discern which voices to follow and what to do when you feel paralyzed even though you know you're called to take a leap.
2:04.0	LISA also talked about softening into pain
2:08.0	and how this is often what's needed
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