Main description:

The Thriving Lawyer: A Multidimensional Model of Well-Being for a Sustainable Legal Profession is based on an innovative model, grounded in science. This book serves as a resource for promoting well-being and culture-change in the legal community by educating about pertinent issues impacting lawyers, and how to address them. It is a roadmap, highlighting the many over-arching and inter-connected aspects of well-being, and enabling readers to identify and target the issues most relevant to their unique situations.

Along with practical strategies, the book provides a big-picture framework, illustrating how the many intersecting individual and organizational factors which influence well-being are all related, yet separate and distinct. The framework provides a foundation for creating change, and where you focus first will depend on the needs, the situation, and any unique challenges faced by you or your organization.

The Thriving Lawyer explains why, in addition to self-care, change is needed on the organizational level in terms of workplace culture and policies, as well as normalizing self-care and eradicating stigma. This book is intended to benefit individual lawyers, their organizations, and professionals who support them, by educating, motivating, and promoting self-care and healthy work environments.

Contents:

1 Introduction to Lawyer Well-Being and a Guide to Reading this Book. 2 Introducing The Multidimensional Model of Lawyer Well-Being, a.k.a., The Honeycomb Model of Well-Being-A Way of Being. 3 Attention to Overall Physical and Mental Health: The Mind-Body Connection and Impact of Stress on Health and Performance. 4 Self-Care Strategies and Overcoming Barriers to Healthy Routines. 5 Understanding and Addressing Workplace Issues Which Impact Well-Being. 6 Managing Work-Life Balance for Well-Being. 7 The Impact of Financial Resources on Well-Being. 8 The Essential Role of Personal Relationships and Social Supports in Well-Being. 9 Cultivating Meaning and Purpose for Well-Being. 10 Creating Change