Finding Healing for the Healers

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December 29, 2012 a project of ServiceSpace If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. - Stephen Levine - Finding Healing for the Healers "Seventeen years ago in the Boston Globe Magazine, a dying man issued a plea for greater compassion in medicine. He worried that medical professionals faced increasing work demands that prioritized efficiency over empathy. Kenneth Schwartz died of lung cancer two months later, but not before founding an organization that would bring increased attention to the importance of human interactions in medicine." { read more } Be The Change This powerful passage by an extraordinary doctor and writer describes the differences between "Helping, Fixing and Serving." { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News A 39-year-long Lesson in Forgiveness Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time 5 Powerful Tools for Reflection Man Builds Fairy Tale Home -- For $4700 7 Ways to Have More by Owning Less How One Teenager Used Her Life Savings How to Change When Change Is Hard The Power of Self-Compassion DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 123,847 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More