In my post, Good Enough: Striving for Excellence Not Perfection, I shared a story about folding towels. As I explained, my husband and I fold towels differently and I viewed his method as inferior to my ‘superior’ method. My solution was to take over the task of laundry completely for the last twenty years.  Who…

Some of you may have caught a throwaway line in my last post, Toxic: Redefining Stresslaxing as Toxic Productivity. About halfway through I rather casually mentioned that having a chronic illness just exacerbated my stresslaxing tendencies. It has been my experience that many of my unhealthy tendencies, like toxic productivity, increased the sicker I got.…

Funny how you can look back on something you wrote and not recognize the author. Over the Christmas break, I reread many of my past posts and was surprised that they came from me. I guess I’ve had some growth since I launched this little blog in 2022! But after a rather stressful week, the…

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…

“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.” Don’t get me wrong, I love taking a vacation. But I rarely feel desperate for one. It wasn’t always like this for me. There was a time when I felt work and perhaps life…

My most recent post on Slaw focused on determining if you’re a work-based person or a workaholic. I compared myself to a husky, working dogs that without a task are easily bored and can be destructive. Pulling a sled gives them great satisfaction. I know I’m a ‘husky’ or a work-based person. I love to…

“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.” I find I often focus my posts on areas where I need improvement. This week I’d like to celebrate what I believe is one of my best characteristics: I get stuff done. I don’t…