This May marks the Florida YLD’s second annual Health & Wellness Month. This initiative is designed to bring awareness to mental and physical issues that affect the quality of life of lawyers. Last year's goal was to start a conversation about the [...]
Day 1 (3/25/2016): Our 20x20 community garden. Finally!!! Starting to think about layout and adding markers. I asked my husband what we're doing today. His response? "Spreading manure." Day 2 (3/26/2016): Making progress! Blueberry, [...]
Laura Primus helps busy professional women transform their health by taking control of their mind-body connection instead of simply counting calories and increasing exercise.
Resilience refers to one’s ability to survive adversities and thrive in life. Surprisingly, lawyers aren’t very resilient.
Today is my birthday! I always hated having a December birthday because of how close it is to Christmas and New Years. But now that I'm older (and I think wiser), I appreciate having an end of year birthday because [...]
Chronic insomniacs will relate when I say that sleep is oh-so-very precious.
If you missed Part 1 of this series, you can read it here. 6. Practice, Practice, Practice Public speaking — the art of telling stories, conveying your message, connecting with your audience, capturing their attention — it’s a skill. It’s [...]
Last week, I had the honor of presenting on Achievable Work/Life Balance at the Clio Cloud Conference. Clio Cloud Conference gathered 600 attorneys from across the U.S. and Canada. And I had the pleasure of presenting on a topic that’s near and [...]
I bumped into a friend on the streets of San Francisco last week. I stopped, delighted to see her, and asked, “How are you?” I haven’t seen her in over a year. “Ugh. I am so busy,” she replied. And she [...]
The word mindfulness has been getting a lot of buzz recently. Even law firms are showing greater interest — offering mindfulness, meditation, and resiliency training. Seyfarth Shaw even has a meditation room in its Sydney office. List of corporations offering mindfulness [...]