Mental Health

Law is inherently demanding—fast-moving, high-stakes, and often emotionally charged—but I’ve come to notice how much of its difficulty is compounded not just by the work itself, but by the ways we respond to it.

We all worry. It’s a fundamental part of the human condition. World events (especially these days) give us no shortage of things to be concerned about in addition to our mountain of typical life concerns–our jobs, our families, our finances. There’s always something. 

Throughout my career, I have had several moments in which I have thought “Everyone knows what they are doing, except me. I’m a fraud.”

Food is a necessity in our lives. Our society, however, has some very unhealthy pressures around disordered eating and distorted views of body image.

The conversation around stress is shifting due to the growing acceptance of a practice called Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).

Law is a rewarding career, however, it can be stressful, exhausting, and demanding which can affect your mental health.

It turns out there is a good word for how we’re feeling - it's called “languishing”.

Zoom, Microsoft Teams and other online communication platforms have been helpful...

Living in the “place between no longer and not yet” (a phrase coined by Victor Turner, anthropologist, writer) can make us feel stuck.

In order to cope with the negative events in our lives we need to be bolstered by the experiences of the positive events.

Last month I was invited to speak to staff at Borden Ladner Gervais about the importance of mindset, and how our mindset shapes and influences how we understand our experiences, and how our unique understanding influences our emotional and behavioural responses.

With more information coming at us faster than we can process, we can easily become overwhelmed and overthink the reality of our situation.

Stopping and pausing in a busy day is one of the most efficient ways of relieving stress.

Law is a stressful and demanding profession. It is hard enough without our own thinking getting in the way.

Mindful awareness is a natural human capacity and a fundamental a way of Being rather than constantly Doing.

Boundaries, and how we define ourselves, are present at all levels of our existence-physical, emotional, mental, social and spiritual.

We all have characteristic ways of handling life's transitions. Our unique individual creativity in how we move through life defines us.

Resilience is often referred to as the ability to bounce back quickly from a difficult and adverse experience.

Depression is a serious but treatable medical condition that can strike anyone. However, depression often goes unrecognized.