You know the drill. You go to the person who hurt you. You say “When you did x, y, and z, I felt hurt, abandoned, neglected, tortured, betrayed, enraged, devastated, disappointed, misunderstood, invisible, [fill in your emotion.]” The other person either cuts you off before you finish your senten

Lissa Rankin

10.09.2025

You Can Heal Your “Parts” & Be The Good Enough Primary Attachment Figure You Never Had

I’m new in town, so I’m trying to make new friends and I met someone today who had never heard of IFS. She was a longtime seeker with a tough past who had worked on herself for decades. She’d been in therapy here and there but she hadn’t tried any of the cutting edge methods I’ve been studying for a

Lissa Rankin

12.09.2025

Don’t Be Tricked By What You Think Is Intuition, Part 1

I was talking to a friend who gave me permission to share her story in my upcoming book Relationsick about how over-giving, fawning, and people pleasing to an extreme degree led to depletion, burnout, and cancer. I had shared a book with her about how to discover what’s hidden in our shadow- and how

Lissa Rankin

13.09.2025

Don’t Be Tricked By What You Think Is Intuition, Part 2

In Part 1 of this series, we explored how, to use IFS language, our “parts” can trick us into thinking we’re being guided by intuition or spirit, when really, our parts have an agenda they’re trying to disguise. I promised to offer some guidance on discerning the difference between real intuition, w

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Don’t Be Tricked By What You Think Is Intuition, Part 1

Don’t Be Tricked By What You Think Is Intuition, Part 2

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