Welcome
The pressure that lawyers experience while practicing their profession is significant and the demands are increasing. You will find yourself being tested by the many factors involved in the successful practice of law. Maybe you are feeling insecure, questioning if you’ve got what it takes. Perhaps your personal life is being negatively impacted by your work life. Or maybe you just aren’t enjoying practicing law anymore, yet you want and/or need to continue practicing.
The way you manage stressors related to personal and professional issues speaks volumes about whom you are and you’re capacity to be resilient. Through resilience training you can learn the ability to bounce back and deal with any challenge that life offers you.
The Challenged Lawyer
“Even though the law profession is a prestigious and remunerative, many practicing attorneys are displeased with it. Their mental and physical health is below that of others in comparable professions. Because they know these facts, many are leaving the profession.” Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D., from Authentic Happiness.
The challenge is to remain prudent in the practice of law and yet adapt a more optimistic outlook outside the practice of law. Developing an ability to think, act and respond to life’s challenges with a balanced approach will cause you and others to have healthy relationships.
There is good research indicating that attorneys have significant problems handling personal issues and responsibilities, and in general having a life outside of the office; and that work life conflict contributes to their leaving their organizations. Add to this the normal problems everyone has keeping a happy, healthy and balanced life.
Lawyers have "risk factors" such as alcohol and drug abuse, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking, that are attributed to the negative reality of practicing law.