Categories : Law Practice Wellness
Diversity Fellowship Program: Mental Health and Fostering Talent
This article was originally published in the Sep/Oct 2021 issue of San Diego Lawyer Magazine.
Categories : Wellness
Mindful Minute: Boundaries and Wellness
Want Better Work-Life Balance? Set a Boundary
By Marta Manus
When people think of boundaries, they often think of limits or rules. Boundaries often imply learning to say “no” to others. I like to think of boundaries as the foundation of any healthy relationship, including your relationship with yourself and others. Boundaries are empowering, and an important aspect of self-care, which is something we could all use a bit more of. Boundaries are saying “yes” to yourself and teaching others how to treat you. Setting boundaries with ourselves and others, including colleagues and bosses, is essential if we want to create a healthy work/life experience. We have to get comfortable with setting healthy personal and professional boundaries.
Categories : Wellness
Mindful Minute: Find a Friend
By Megan M. Moore
Wellness is a journey of self-discovery, but not a journey you have to take alone. There is no “right way” to create and maintain a wellness practice; you need to find what works for you. One tip for developing a wellness practice? Take the journey with a friend.
Categories : Wellness
Mindful Minute: How My Day Planner Became a Journal of the Unplanned
By Heidi Weaver
I’ve understood my whole life that there are many wellness benefits to writing in a journal. Self-reflection, stress relief, and recording good ideas are a few that come to mind. I realized these benefits in my teen and early adult years, when I regularly poured my deepest (and not so deep) thoughts out in page after page of my diary. But as my obligations increased over the years with working full time and a busy family life, I started to see journaling every evening as yet another pressure-filled, time-consuming chore rather than a healing opportunity, and abandoned the practice.
Categories : Wellness
Compassion is Good For Us!
Do you ever feel disconnected or wish you could relate to people on a deeper level? Tonglen could be the answer.
Categories : Wellness
Mindful Minute: Returning to the Public Arena
What have you missed the most while we held the line to beat the pandemic? Is it concerts, sports, traveling, or something we took for granted such as simply being able to give someone a hug?
Categories : Wellness
Practicing Law with Purpose in a Pandemic
When the world as we know it is stripped away and each day brings a new challenge, we are presented with the opportunity to decide who we really want to be and how we want to spend our time.
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Mindful Minute: The Power of Intentionally Saying Yes to New Things
This is part two of a two-part series in which I explore “The Power of Strategically Quitting Things” and “The Power of Intentionally Saying Yes to New Things.”
Categories : Wellness
Mindful Minute: The Power of Strategically Quitting Things
This is part of a two-part series in which I explore “The Power of Strategically Quitting Things” and “The Power of Intentionally Saying Yes to New Things”
Categories : Wellness
Now Is the Perfect Time to Start a Mindfulness Practice. Here’s Why!
Don't try to be perfect! Just like with physical fitness, for mindfulness, you will need to be patient and consistent to see gains.