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Following Your Dreams is Easy–Said No One
My writer’s journey began in 2007, when I left my stable, lucrative career as a physician to pursue my dream of being a professional writer. My behavior seemed pretty reckless to those who loved me. I…
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Mammography: Saving Lives Or Overdiagnosis Overkill?
In response to last week’s blog post Was Angelina Jolie “Medically Hexed?” many of you wrote to me asking my medical opinion on screening mammography. So… gulp… here we go. You asked. Mind you, this i…
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Was Angelina Jolie ‘Medically Hexed?’
In this New York Times article, A-list actress Angelina Jolie bravely announced that she made the tough decision to undergo elective bilateral mastectomy after her doctors warned her that she has an 8…
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When Medicine Doesn’t Heal
From time to time, pain grips Anna’s belly so severely that she has to excuse herself, hide in the bathroom, double over on the toilet, and dab herself with lavender oil to try to keep from puking. Th…
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Is Relaxation the Best Medicine?
You may know that your body is brilliantly equipped with natural self-repair mechanisms that repair broken proteins, kill cancer cells, fight infections, retard aging and generally keep your body heal…
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Have You Sold Out Your Body?
No, I’m not talking about prostitution here. I’m talking about honoring the temple your spirit inhabits. What I’ll be talking about is how to be in your body and why. But first, a story about what ins…
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What Is Your Body Telling You?
When my colleague read Mind Over Medicine, it changed the way she thought about her health. She said, “Before reading your book, Lissa, I honestly thought my body was none of my business. Now, having …
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Heal Yourself With EMT
In the foreword to my friend and fellow Hay House author Nick Ortner’s The Tapping Solution, Dr. Mark Hyman relates the story of Paula, a patient of his who was debilitated by migraines that landed he…
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How To Be ‘Eggy’ When It’s Crunch Time
Ever since my mentor Dr. Christiane Northrup challenged me to “be less sperm, more egg” two and a half years ago, I’ve committed to less of the pushing, striving, and making it happen “spermy”-ness th…
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How to Eliminate Fear
Think of what scares you the most, what holds you back, what sabotages you – again and again and again, that thing that keeps you from fully living and expressing the incredibly vital life force of wh…
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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 other 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 grassroots mission to heal health care, while empowering you to heal yourself. Lissa blogs at LissaRankin.com and also created two online communities - HealHealthCareNow.com and OwningPink.com. She is also the author of two other books, a professional artist, an amateur ski bum, and an avid hiker. Lissa lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband and daughter.
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