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Jul 7, 2022

"When you're happy, relaxed, and free of stress, the body can accomplish amazing, even miraculous, feats of self-repair." --Lissa Rankin

The Paradoxes of Healing

Lissa Rankin, MD, describes herself as a skeptic. She is a Western-trained ob-gyn, linear thinker, and evidence-informed scientist. In the same breath, however, she also describes herself as a mystic an open-hearted, spiritually alive, empathic healer who has witnessed countless miracles of healing and has also experienced them firsthand herself. What follows is an excerpt from her book, "Sacred Medicine: A Doctor's Quest to Unravel the Mysteries of Healing."