I woke up bone-tired yesterday. I’m usually a morning person but I just wanted to stay under the covers. The extreme cold hitting the Prairies this week didn’t help. The old me would have just pushed through despite my body telling my I might need a break.  I would have told myself I can rest…

Since 2022, the two national studies on wellness in the legal profession have been released. The results of the studies should not be a shock to many of us. As the second studies highlights, the stigma surrounding mental health struggles is prevalent, with over half of legal professionals believing that such issues are viewed as…

I’m exceedingly hard on myself. I’ve always had rigid, high expectations of myself from achieving academic success, maintaining physical ‘fitness’ or completing numerous tasks in a day. A chronic illness challenges what you believe are acceptable accomplishments. It can push people with this tendency in two directions: to the right you can take the path…

It’s difficult as a lawyer to admit weakness. So instead I share my chronic illness with you not as a weakness but as a strength. Endometriosis is my daily reminder to take care of myself. I must eat right, exercise and get a full night sleep to keep the pain and fatigue ‘manageable’. It’s a…