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August 17, 2011
Dance Like No One Is Watching
Ki’Une (also known as Jessie) dances like nobody else is watching. Only after clipping together video of him dancing all over the world and having it broadcast on Tim Ferriss’s blog, a few people are paying attention to this dude now.
And with good reason.
YOU MUST WATCH THIS VIDEO!
August 16, 2011
The Summer of Love
I just returned to San Francisco after spending the summer with my mother and my daughter. Three generations of Rankin women spent five weeks at my mother's Ohio lake house - swimming, Slip 'n' Sliding, coloring, reading, kayaking, tubing, eating watermelon off our chins, boating, making pottery, square-dancing, cruising around in golf carts, sculpting sandstone, licking ice cream, hiking, trolling through Amish country, riding rollercoasters, singing, sliding down flumes, and doing lots and lots of hugging.
August 14, 2011
Introducing Pink Medicine
When I decided to put my white coat back on, I committed to reclaiming what I love about medicine and ditching what I've come to despise. In fact, after leaving medicine - supposedly for good - I had to expand and redefine "health" and change the whole way I think about practicing medicine in order to feel proud of my MD title and rekindle my on-again-off-again relationship with health care. Now that I am working with patients again - in my own way - I remember how much I truly love medicine and how I felt the call to serve at the young age of seven.
August 11, 2011
What I Learned From the Kripalu Labyrinth
I've always wanted to walk a labyrinth - you know those spiraled paths that lead nowhere and everywhere.
I was in luck. Kripalu, where I was teaching a workshop recently, had one that was reputed to be particularly magical. And I got enmeshed in walking the labyrinth as the sun set for over an hour.
August 9, 2011
Vagina: The Final Frontier
If you can love your vagina, you can love any part of you - not just your belly, your butt, your boobs, and your thighs, but also that thing you did that led to your divorce, that way you treated your child, that betrayal of your own integrity, that episode of cheating on your taxes, that mistake you haven't recovered from, that tendency you have to drink too much, that failure to stay true to your dreams, that way you promise yourself you'll stop overeating even though you never do.
I know. I know. That belly can be hard to love. And those thighs. Those stretch marks. The saggy, deflated, balloon, post-breastfeeding boobs. That wrinkle right between your eyebrows. That chicken neck. That ass.
And the other stuff - sheesh. That might seem impossible to love. Who would want to love mistakes, betrayal, cheating, and lack of willpower?
But the vagina. The vagina is the final frontier.
August 7, 2011
An Open Letter To Anyone Who Doesn't Like How I Live My Life
I'm not the type to cut people off. Yes, relationships grow apart. Sacred contracts end. But I don't ditch you if you piss me off or hurt my feelings. I initiate open communication. I tell you I'm hurt. But I don't build the Great Wall of China between us or block your phone calls.
I'm not suggesting that every relationship should be mended. Some are probably better left torn apart. But if you - like me - feel saddened by someone who has cut you out of their life, then you'll get where I'm coming from. This letter is for anyone who disagrees with how I live my life enough to cut me out. (You know who you are.) And it's for anyone else who doesn't like how you live your life too. Feel free to pass it on. . .
August 4, 2011
Orgasmic Meditation Part 2: A Stripped Down Approach To Sex
As I wrote about here, when I met Nicole Daedone, I knew I had met my kinda sex teacher. My hubby and I had been considering branching out from our loving (albeit somewhat vanilla) sex life and trying something new. So when Nicole of One Taste offered me the gift of two of her best OM coaches, who would come into our home and teach us a new sexual meditation practice, I knew I'd be crazy to say no.
August 2, 2011
Meet Your Inner Pilot Light
If you're a patient of mine, if you've been reading my blog, if you're a student of the Get Out Of Your Own Way e-course, or if you read The Daily Flame, you've probably heard me frequently referencing your "Inner Pilot Light." But someone who doesn't know me well asked me flat out the other day, "Lissa, what's an Inner Pilot Light?" And I realized I'd never really written a post about something that has become part of my everyday vernacular. So if you've ever been curious and you'd like to know more about this vital part of every single one of us, this post is for you.
July 31, 2011
Permission To Break My Heart
My five year old daughter Siena fell in love recently. It was with another girl - a five year old princess named Vivien, who lives in a castle in Chicago and is the daughter of my best friend Katsy.
Siena and Vivien have known each other since they were three months old, but they haven't actually seen each other since. They've only heard stories. Siena has heard great tales of Princess Vivien, and Vivien has heard the wondrous stories of Siena and her fairy magic.
July 28, 2011
Orgasmic Meditation: My Kinda Sex Teacher
After nine years together, having a child, and watching our sex life falter a bit amidst attachment parenting, professional turbulence, marital ennui, and the effects of aging, my hubby and I have been thinking about trying something new, either in the bedroom - or out of it.
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