What a Healthy Legal Community Looks Like

Wellness Articles

2021

• 8 Ways to Cope After a Suicide Loss
• Getting Out and Moving
• Trial by Video 
• Incivility and Well-Being 
• The Stress Test: Searching For Well-Being in Law School 
• Getting Down to Business About Sleep in the Legal Profession
• Hobbies
• It Shouldn't Hurt to be a Lawyer: Dealing With Compassion Fatigue
• No One Escapes Fear
• LEGAL WELL BEING: Overcoming Fear of Stigma and Promoting Self-Care
• Lawyering by Video
• Why Lawyers Need Self-Care

2022

• "What's Next" The New Mexico Well-Being Committee's 2022 Campaign
• Well-Being? Me, Solo/Small Firm Gal-Guy? Who Are You Kidding? I Don’t Have Time for “Me”, or Well-Being!!!
• Take Some Little Leaps (or at least some little steps): Self-care in a Busy World
• It’s Always Good to Get an Early Start on Something This Important: Well-Being at the Law School
• “Happiness Isn’t What You’re Looking For in Your Work” Tapping Into That Which Lights Us Up
• Ready for checkers at Starbucks©?
• In the Middle – The Paralegal World
• Well-Being in the Bigger Firm “Leash the Dog, Secure the Scene”

• The New Mexico Law Offices of the Public Defender

Legal Well-Being In Action Podcast

About the Podcast: Does self-care and lawyering co-exist? How do I integrate my personal life and legal professional life so that I find meaning and purpose in both? If I start to feel burned out or overwhelmed as a legal professional would I know? Why does lawyering have some of the highest anxiety, depression, and addiction rates vs other professions and what can I do to make sure I stay mentally, emotionally and physically healthy? How can I be a great lawyer and human being? This legal well-being podcast series will feature leaders of wellness in your community, answer these questions, and more!

Tune in to find out how you can be mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually strong while being a good lawyer.