Susan Richardson
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The healthy attitudes toward life that illness and death can bring
“The dying don’t worry about detail.” That’s a stunner of an insight from Dr. Nina O’Connor, a palli ...
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Tending to the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of doctors
Doctors deal with enormous stress working every day with life and death. How can they balance the priority of the patient with their own ...
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A Philadelphia pizzeria sparks the spirit of giving
No matter what your approach to the holidays is, I’ll bet it includes some theme of light or warmth — a festival of lights or a s ...
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Sometimes the key to avoiding burnout is at work, not home
Medical jobs can be interpersonally intense, including major decisions about someone else’s life — and death. Penn’s D ...
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When work/life balance gets thorny, it’s time to prune your choices
I have been thinking more about the time and space in which we nourish ourselves as humans on the job, which brought to mind two ideas: f ...
10 years ago
The surprising productivity of mindlessness
A recent article in the New York Times Magazine helped me feel vindicated in sticking with my zone-out time. Writer Melissa ...
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Finding work/life balance in the darkroom of the soul
The work/life balance is one of the first things that comes to most people’s minds when I ask them how they can be ‘human at ...
10 years ago
The spirit of connecting, when service leads to personal happiness and workplace success
An interview with Leadership Philadelphia CEO Liz Dow reveals a surprising truth about work and meaning for business leaders. “I’ ...
10 years ago
Philly business folk seeking ‘the inner wisdom that makes work fruitful’
I was lucky enough to participate in the second annual Junto Retreat in Philadelphia in September. I spoke to organizer Geoff DiMasi abou ...
10 years ago
How do you bring personal meaning to your work?
OK, take a look at just a few headlines from the last year. Notice a pattern? There’s a discussion going on in the public sphere about ...
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It’s hard for this Philly lawyer to fit his spiritual life into his briefcase
Is there a temple, mosque, church, sangha, regular yoga gathering, or some other spiritual community in your life that you are reluctant ...
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