Lissa Rankin, MD

Everything you need to know about mind-body medicine, Internal Family Systems, trauma-informed medicine, healthy boundaries, spiritual bypassing, the impacts of relational and narcissistic abuse on physical and mental health, the effect of creativity on health, and sometimes...music!

Lissa Rankin, MD, is a physician, radical remission researcher, an IFS educator, author of 7 books, and founder of the Whole Health Medicine Institute and the health equity non-profit Heal At Last. Her TEDx talks have been viewed over 6 million times, and she starred in two National Public Television specials. Lissa is currently co-writing her eighth book with Harvard psychiatrist Jeffrey Rediger, MD, MDiv about the link between narcissistic abuse and medical illness, focusing on how healthy boundaries and Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy can help reverse diseases related to nervous system dysregulation caused by relational trauma.