{"id":27796,"date":"2026-10-08T03:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=27796"},"modified":"2026-10-05T19:49:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:49:29","slug":"just-one-question-lissa-rankin-can-healing-our-trauma-heal-our-bodies","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/podcast\/just-one-question-lissa-rankin-can-healing-our-trauma-heal-our-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Just One Question | Lissa Rankin: Can Healing Our Trauma Heal Our Bodies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; border: 0 none;\" src=\"https:\/\/art19.com\/shows\/1632d73c-91ea-42a8-a3db-a62b135d081c\/episodes\/f3e7cac0-1c54-4bb3-ae70-b1b6c84d6db3\/embed?theme=dark-custom&amp;primary_color=%23F60F60\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Physician Lissa Rankin says trauma doesn&#8217;t just live in the mind; it can trigger measurable physical disease, from autoimmune conditions to chronic illness that conventional medicine can&#8217;t explain. But her most provocative claim is the reverse: that healing the nervous system may be the missing piece in reversing illnesses that have resisted every other treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Rankin, a physician and author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sacred Medicine<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <em>New York Times<\/em> bestseller <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mind Over Medicine<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, has spent years studying the link between the nervous system and self-healing, including polyvagal theory and the ventral vagal branch of the vagus nerve. In this conversation with Tami Simon, she widens the definition of trauma well beyond childhood wounds to include systemic racism, environmental toxins, and the everyday stress of simply living in the world today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this conversation, Tami and Lissa explore:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why Dr. Rankin believes trauma and chronic illness are intrinsically connected<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How polyvagal theory and the vagus nerve point to a physical mechanism for healing<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why &#8220;developmental trauma&#8221; can affect even people who had privileged childhoods<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How collective traumas \u2014 like systemic racism and white-body supremacy \u2014 show up in the body<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why treating trauma isn&#8217;t a guarantee of cure, but can still open the door to real healing<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This episode is for anyone who has tried everything to heal a chronic or life-threatening illness and wants to understand what role the nervous system might play.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taken from the full <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insights at the Edge<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> conversation with Lissa Rankin, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/lissa-rankin\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is There a Holy Grail of Healing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":27798,"template":"","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[392],"tags":[170,242],"contributor":[484],"class_list":["post-27796","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-and-healing","tag-insights-at-the-edge","tag-tami-simon","contributor-lissa-rankin"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Just One Question | Lissa Rankin: Can Healing Our Trauma Heal Our Bodies? | Sounds True<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Just One Question | Lissa Rankin: Can Healing Our Trauma Heal Our Bodies? | Sounds True\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Physician Lissa Rankin says trauma doesn&#8217;t just live in the mind; it can trigger measurable physical disease, from autoimmune conditions to chronic illness that conventional medicine can&#8217;t explain. 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