Praise
“Lissa Rankin is the real deal. The Anatomy of a Calling made me cry and laugh…it is so honest and brave. More than a memoir, this beautifully crafted book is a fearless guide to the Great Unknown. The simple practices that Lissa suggests at the end of each chapter are portals to your own inner guidance. Gentle, hopeful, and clear…this book is destined to become a classic.”
“I made the mistake of starting The Anatomy of a Calling near bedtime. Don’t do this unless you are willing to lose a lot of sleep! Lissa’s story is absolutely riveting, moving and so wise. Read this book and be awakened to all that life wants for you.”
“Lissa Rankin has the courage to confront the difficulties of life and the inadequacies of our medical training. I know that as a doctor receiving information but not a full healer’s education leads you to treat the result and not the cause. We do not learn to know ourselves or why we became doctors and chose a specific specialty. So we struggle to understand and know ourselves amidst all the pain and suffering we are exposed to. Lissa’s words offer us all a guidebook on how to choose the healing paths when life presents us with its various roadblocks.”
“This book will forever change the way you perceive your own physician and our current healthcare system. Lissa’s writing is so intimate and confessional, you feel as if you’re walking alongside her in Big Sur as she regales you with her miraculous tale. Best of all- it will show you how to heed your own calling- no matter what it is.”
“Callings do not go away no matter how long it takes, how scared you feel or how much you try to resist. Lissa’s brilliant and very wise book is a vulnerably powerful support and catalyst for you discovering your calling, and living and being your calling.”
“Poignant and powerful, this book works equally as a memoir and a self-help guide. Yet there is also an undefinable third thing within its covers. It isn’t only a guide to the transition into one’s calling. Potentially it is itself part of that transition, shifting reality for those who read it.”
“If you combined Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love, Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, and James Redfield’s The Celestine Prophecy, you’d get Lissa Rankin’s The Anatomy of a Calling. Although this book is about Lissa and her story, you won’t doubt for one minute that it’s really about you and your story. Much more than a memoir, this is a road map for those on the spiritual path who sense that they’re being called to fulfill a sacred mission. Loaded with nurturing comfort along with practical tools for navigating your hero’s journey, this book will help you become a miracle worker at a time when we need miracles!”
“In this memoir Lissa Rankin, MD offers us a deeply honest and personal account of The Hero’s Journey, the universal path each of us travels towards an authentic life. At critical steps of the way she shares Guideposts and Practices to help us each travel our own Hero’s Journey to our own unique destination. Anatomy of a calling is a gift, a companion for the road for anyone who feels they are traveling uncharted territory alone.”
“Every once in awhile a book comes along that feels like that companion you’ve been longing for to hold your hand on the incredible journey of life. Lissa Rankin has beautifully written The Anatomy of a Calling for you to transform your desire to do and be more into knowing, once and for all, your sacred purpose for being here. Enjoy this heartfelt journey as you realize that you are the hero in the story she shares.”
“The Anatomy of a Calling is not only a poignant and inspiring hero’s journey of a doctor who lost and later rediscovered her calling to heal, but also a fascinating roadmap for anyone who is feeling broken or dissatisfied with life and is ready to go on their own hero’s journey to find (or rediscover) their true purpose. Lissa’s raw honesty and vulnerability will blow you away as she reflects on her winding path toward fulfillment.”
“Our healers group received The Anatomy of a Calling, and we’re passing it around. It’s on the third read currently. I gotta tell you—it changed my life! Lissa summarized my journey to a tee. I feel validated, refreshed and energized. My husband picked the book up off the side table on a Monday evening, and I found him sprawled in the couch Tuesday morning still reading. He read the entire book in one sitting and was revolutionized. My personal thank you to Lissa for that. It is a gift. Lissa’s writing style is as engaging as talking with by best friend over coffee, her wisdom like that of Grandma Betty, and commitment like that of my obstinate toddler. What a fabulous combination of talents to express the calling she has been given! Her book has blessed our lives. I look forward to watching my little healers group catch the vision of who they are to become and rise up and never be the same again.”
“I’ve been working on bathing my nervous system with the energies of “it is safe to keep growing” and was drawn to your book, The Anatomy of a Calling. I’m halfway through and loving it!!!! I soooo relate to so much in this and especially having a calling from a feminine vibration and the journey of doing healing outside the box of the medical model. I’m drinking it up!!! I want to give this book to all of my healer clients! And it has inspired me to look back through my journals and appreciate my journey these past 5 years. I am soaking in the beautiful vibration of your writing and letting it inspire deeper integration in me for my next steps.”