Productivity isn’t just about working harder or faster. It’s about understanding how our brains and bodies work and leveraging that knowledge to create sustainable, fulfilling work habits. Whether you’re tackling financial tasks or setting goals, remember to work with your brain, not against it.

In this post, we’ll dive into:

• How our brains influence productivity

• Why understanding this relationship matters

• Practical strategies to boost your efficiency and well-being

Striving for emotional, mental, and physical well-being is a continuous journey especially for lawyers navigating the demands of our profession. I’ve found that I can’t make progress in these areas alone. I need support - accountability partners, therapists, coaches, friends, and family members who help me create a more balanced Life. By looking at the way our lives are structured, we can find more supportive ways of navigating our days; we can create a more balanced and fulfilling life.

In this post, we’ll dive into:

• Rewiring negative thinking

• The eternal search for work-life balance

• The importance of sourcing from within

In the legal profession, we are trained to prioritize our intellect over our emotions. Law school teaches us to "think like a lawyer," emphasizing the importance of analytical thinking and decision-making from a cerebral place. The implicit and explicit message is clear: Brain is King and our bodies and emotions don’t matter. Disregarding the needs of our bodies and emotions has terrible consequences, however, which we’re seeing in our profession.

In this post, we’ll dive into:

• The consequences of emotional neglect

• The importance of body awareness

• The importance of support as we navigate our emotional world

We all have race-based trauma. But the way we hold it in the body depends on skin color because our relationship to White supremacy is dependent upon skin color. For those who are White, we hold the trauma as supremacy. Gender also plays a role in how the trauma flows through the body. For White women, the emotions that tend to present initially are guilt and shame. These emotions lead to a number of behaviors including crying, defensiveness, lashing out at Black and Brown communities (especially women of Color), and rushing to defend and stand with other White women when we perceive that they are being accused of being racist (i.e. standing in White solidarity).

In this post, we’ll dive into:

• The emotions that tend to present initially in White women when it comes to racialized trauma

• Why we must address our racialized trauma and stop demanding that communities of Color (especially Black and Brown women) do our emotional work

• The difference between race literacy work and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) work