by dev | Sep 19, 2024 | Coping with work, Training For Lawyers, wellbeing in law
Trainees: they’ll be OK, as long as the pigs don’t eat them first… What on earth?? Well, a few months ago, I was in Versailles speaking at a legal conference. And one of the (French) delegates introduced me to the above wonderful phrase. We were talking about our...
by dev | Sep 15, 2024 | General, wellbeing in law
Life is messy Today we celebrated our littlest Carvalho’s 2nd birthday! It poured down with rain all day. It was chaotic. There were 25 or so feral kids running around the house. The house was crammed. I couldn’t use any of the garden games I’d planned. And yet it was...
by dev | Aug 6, 2024 | mental health, wellbeing in law
Do all the years of fancy therapeutic training you want but therapists are (and should be) human beings first and foremost. That’s why I didn’t mind admitting to my clients today that I did not relish my little girl going off to nursery this morning. In fact I called...
by dev | Jun 30, 2024 | Coping with work, mental health, wellbeing in law
As much as it pains my middle class heart to admit it, we have a cleaner. And she does stuff like this (see the picture) And it makes me SO happy Cos it’s the little things, isn’t it? That make all the difference. What’s this got to do with my work training law firms...
by dev | Jun 15, 2024 | Coping with work, mental health, wellbeing in law
IT’S A ‘HARD’ NO…✋ One of the greatest myths of our wellbeing-obsessed age is that when you put boundaries in place or have to say no to someone, they’ll be thrilled that you’re looking after yourself…. And that we’ll all go skipping off into the distance hand in hand...
by dev | Jun 7, 2024 | General, mental health, wellbeing in law
One of my highlights of this year so far has been working with increasing numbers of in-house lawyers. And in particular, getting to know the innovative minds at Juro and providing the keynote at their recent conference on ‘Is law bad for your health?’ Their report...
