![]() ![]() Learn and Evolve: Lessons from falls pave the way for personal evolution and profound wisdom.ħ. Elegance in Adaptation: Like dancers adjusting to music, adaptability is key to navigating life's rhythm.Ħ. Craft Your Narrative: Transform falls into tales of triumph, inspiring others on their journey.ĥ. Courage Amidst Chaos: Dancing through challenges requires courage to face the unknown steps.Ĥ. Shift Your Perspective: Stumbles are chances to see life from new angles, enriching our worldview.ģ. Embrace Vulnerability: Authentic growth emerges when we acknowledge our imperfections.Ģ. ✅Mastering the Art of Graceful Resilience: □10 Transformative Insights □ġ. Originally published in the Oklahoma Bar Journal – OBJ 93 Vol 4 (April 2022).□"Life's challenges may knock you down, but the strength to get up with a smile and dance through adversity is what truly defines your spirit."□ Let’s change the conversation and get to work! This further ensures families are preserved, and clients and other members of the public are protected. Our goal is to assure that every lawyer has access to support and assistance when confronting stress, substance abuse or mental health issues so they are able to improve and recover. The OBA is committed to advancing wellness in the legal profession. Reaching out for professional help if you or someone you know is struggling with mental illness or substance abuse.Experimenting with various wellness strategies and practices to see what works for you.Committing to give your body the regular exercise, rest and care it needs.Studying your personal nutrition habits and eating food that makes you feel energized.Implementing mindfulness practice as part of your daily or weekly routine.On a personal level, you can start making wellness a priority by: Taking the first step toward wellness means changing the conversation. These meetings are designed to offer the opportunity for participants to ask questions, share information and improve their lives both professionally and personally. The service is strictly confidential and available by calling the LHL hotline 80 or emailing In addition, Lawyers Helping Lawyers hosts monthly small-group discussion groups. The OBA is making a difference in lawyer wellness by offering all bar members up to six hours of free short-term, problem-focused or crisis counseling. The simplest first step to investing in mental wellness is to speak in confidence with someone we trust about our experience,” writes authors Allison Wolf and Terry DeMeo. “Fears, shame and negative thoughts begin to shrink when taken out of the darkness in your head and brought into the light when shared with others. ![]() Learn to recognize, in the moment, when you are being caught up in speculative, negative thoughts – and how to interrupt those thoughts and analyze them from an impartial standpoint.Įxecute tasks one at a time instead of trying to do multiple things at once, because studies show that people actually function better when they focus their attention on one action instead of multitasking.įor more detailed insight, read the article, “5 Simple Steps Every Lawyer Can Take to Improve Mental Wellness,” available at. Talk to someone you trust about the difficult things you are experiencing, so you can feel that you are not on your own. Here are three of their recommended steps to improving mental wellness: Legal coaches Allison Wolf and Terry DeMeo advise professionals that mental wellness is something you can influence and change for the better. At its most basic, lawyer mental wellness includes anything that: Be it getting outside, playing tennis, cycling, running, gardening or just relaxing with a good book, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to achieving a general sense of well-being and overall health. In its purest form, wellness involves doing whatever you need to do to feel better and be healthier on a day-to-day basis. As legal professionals, all of us need to adopt practices aimed at improving work-life balance, reducing stress and increasing overall well-being. Just as eating well and exercising can positively influence our physical health, we can positively influence our mental wellness by giving it our attention. Changing the conversation starts with recognizing that stress can motivate you to open the door to taking actions designed to improve your mental wellness. This is simply part of being human, and everyone you know faces these same challenges. We all have self-doubt, fears and occasional dark thoughts. We must recognize that while everyone faces stress and anxiety, the practice of law is an especially stressful profession. This issue of the Oklahoma Bar Journal is dedicated to encouraging open and honest conversations about attorney wellness.
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