Be Well, 1220 WYBJ, Vol. 43 No. 6. 56

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Be Well

No. Vol. 43 No. 6 Pg. 56

Wyoming Bar Journal

December, 2020

Attorney Wellness is Not One-Size-Fits-All

This month’s column is driven by questions from you, the practicing bar. I was recently asked how small and solo firms should approach wellness. A few weeks later, I was asked by another colleague what a wellness program should include. Both questions are the impetus for this month’s column.

Attorney wellness is not necessarily amenable to a one-size-fits-all program. It is also not a one-point-in-time program. Well-ness is like an umbrella. Each segment of that umbrella is a different facet of wellness. There are eight facets to that umbrella depending on the wellness model you use—occupational, social, emotional, physical, intellectual, spiritual, financial, and environmental. The goal is to strengthen each segment of the umbrella. When several or all segments of the umbrella are strong, then when natural stressors come at you in the practice of law or in your personal life, your wellness allows you to be more resilient; the stressors can be dealt with and just roll off the umbrella without causing lasting damage to the person covered by the umbrella, you.

Attorney wellness is not one-size-fits-all because each...