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What’s Your Sh*t Pickle?

Lissa Rankin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000

As part of my blog series about Pink Medicine, I wanted to share with you the story of an exceptional patient, who I’m blessed to have as a friend. This woman has made straight A’s in activating her Inner Pilot Light and being her own healer. She’s a rock star woman who has earned her honorary white coat like nobody’s business. You’ve met her before in her posts here on Owning Pink and in the interview I did with her. Meet my friend Kris Carr.

Pisces New Moon

Ophira and Tali Edut — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000

The new moon in dreamy, enlightened Pisces sends us all on a fantastic voyage this Tuesday. It’s time to set sail in the waters of spirituality, imagination, and an uncharted exploration of our own subconscious minds. New moons are our launching points, the results of which culminate six months later, under the light of the corresponding full moon. Circle August 31, 2012 as the date of the Pisces full moon: it’s anyone’s guess where we’ll drop anchor then. If we feel “lost at sea” this week, the answer is not to splash around furiously, trying to regain control. Pisces is the sign that’s associated with surrender. Lean back and float: that’s how we’ll ride the waves and get our “sea legs.”

How To Release Childhood Wounds

Lissa Rankin — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000

I grew up believing that love is conditional. I don’t blame my parents for this - and it turns out it wasn’t true - but I genuinely thought my parents would only love me if:

Equality Or Lip Service?

Monica Wilcox — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000

Wow! Can we all agree that last week was a hard kick to the uterus?

I usually hate to write about “hot topics” after they’ve turned cold but the uterus doesn’t really fall into the hot topic category; it’s more of a buried topic; fuming in the coffin, clawing its way out, yet again, to eat the female population alive. Yes, it may have slunk back into its shallow grave but trust me, it’ll be back. It just keeps creeping back.

Create A Shortcut To Your Source

Mali Apple and Joe Dunn — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000

For the past two years, Lydia has been involved with a man who, it has become increasingly clear, is not a healthy choice for a boyfriend. Julian is moody, often depressed, and has recently become verbally and even physically abusive.

10 Questions Pregnant Women Should Ask Before Giving Birth

Lissa Rankin — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000

As an OB/GYN, I know pregnant women have a boatload of questions as their due date approaches. But so often, they fail to plan ahead and get their questions asked until they’re huffing and puffing in labor. And trust me. This is NOT the best time.

Shame Blamed For New Eating Disorder

Pauline Campos — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000

I'd like to ask when it became mandated by society that the most obvious of details will be ignored/and or denied by the masses until experts step in and slap us in the face? Because doctors are now reporting a new type of eating disorder in children attributed to aggressive anti-obesity campaigns.

According to this article, Australian doctors are now treating an onslaught of healthy children being driven to starvation. Victoria's three leading pediatric services are treating children at the upper end of the medically-accepted healthy weight range who have lost up to a third of their body weight so they can stay thin.

How To Love Unconditionally & Still Stay Sane

Lissa Rankin — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000

After two painful divorces, I learned several valuable lessons about love and marriage that I was sharing with a friend awhile back. You may be reluctant to take relationship advice from someone who’s on her third marriage, so take what I’ve learned with a grain of salt. But I wish someone had taught me these lessons years ago.

The Love Letter You’ve Yearned For Your Whole Life

Lissa Rankin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000

Lissa’s Note: Preparing in advance, I wrote a post for Valentine’s Day a while back - 11 Ways To Be Your Own Valentine. But the day before Valentine’s Day dawned, a little voice inside of me started whispering, “I want to write the Valentine’s Day post.” So this post is not written by me. It’s written by your Inner Pilot Light - from you, to you. Enjoy, my love.

Dear beautiful, radiant, sparkly, effervescent YOU,

11 Ways To Be Your Own Valentine

Lissa Rankin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:04:03 +0000

I used to fantasize about Valentine’s Day, dreaming up lavish scenes of decadent romance that my lovers would plan. Plane trips to Paris. Kissing from the top of the Eiffel Tower. Picnics on the beach with real china and candles and a bonfire to boot. Buggy rides in Central Park.

You know, the stuff they do in romantic comedies.

My poor boyfriends didn’t stand a chance.

Are You A Good Friend?

Lissa Rankin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000

Since I became clear on my mission in 2008 and launched Owning Pink in 2009, I’ve worked my ass off to bring my vision to being. And it’s working! Patients are transforming their lives, healers are waking up and amplifying the collective message with me, and the seeds of change for how health care could be delivered and received have been planted. Traffic to my blog about being healthy in all aspects of your life is ramping up. I got to talk about my radical new wellness model at TEDxWomen in San Francisco. I’ll be rocking the stage with my message with Louise Hay, Wayne Dyer, Doreen Virtue, Cheryl Richardson, and other transformational catalysts at I Can Do It! IGNITE - San Jose in March. And my book Mind Over Medicine will be published by Hay House in 2013.

I Heart My Brain

Kris Carr — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000

For many reasons I am in love with my brain, your brain, the brain. Yet until recently, I’ve known next to nothing about the most phenomenal organ in my body. Thanks to Jill Bolte Taylor’s book, "My Stroke of Insight," I am on a new mission: Know thy brain. In doing so, I have a hunch that I will come to know myself at a deeper level. Have you read this book? If not, I highly recommend it. Your brain will thank you, just like mine did. Here’s a nutshell synopsis from Amazon:

Becoming Your Own Beloved

Claire Delphine — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000

Beloved. . . what?

It’s that time of year again. You either love Valentines Day or hate it, depending on whether you have a special someone in your life. This time around I discovered that special someone is myself. I have truly become my own beloved and the feeling this truth gives me is rich and serene. When I first heard that phrase - “become your own beloved” - I thought it sounded really new-agey and cheesy. Perhaps because I had yet to discover the richness in it and really own it. I’m on my way to having a deep knowing of it now.

You Can’t Quit Your Calling

Lissa Rankin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000

Those of you who know my story know the on-again-off-again love affair I have had with medicine (as I wrote about here). Time and time again, I have tried to stray, quit my job, turned my back on the white coat. But again and again, it boils down to one thing. This is my calling, and you can quit your job, but you can’t quit your calling. It beckons like a siren song until you finally surrender to it.

Confession

Guest Author — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000

Perhaps I should confess. Sitting across from each woman – I am in silent prayer.

Please God, let it be that she is totally, utterly, completely consumed. By something. Anything. Okay, maybe not sugar or shopping. But let it be that this woman in front of me – this intelligent, put together, gorgeous woman finds herself on her knees tonight, crawling, reaching, yearning, aching and tormented by something she cannot outrun.