Bar Exams, Health / Wellness

Keeping Your Sanity During The Bar Exam

Taking the bar exam is an awful experience. Here are some tips on how you can sooth your mind.

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Ed. note: This post is by Jeena Cho, a Legal Mindfulness Strategist at Start Here HQ. She is the co-author of The Anxious Lawyer (affiliate link), a book written by lawyers for lawyers that makes mindfulness and meditation accessible and approachable. Jeena offers actionable change strategies for reducing stress and anxiety while increasing productivity, joy, and satisfaction through mindfulness.

It’s that time of year. The dreaded bar exam. The final threshold you must cross to transition from law student to lawyer. I took the bar exam in three different states — New York, Florida, and California. With each exam, the overwhelming anxiety, sense of doom, and angst decreased, but there’s no way to sugar coat it. Taking the bar exam is an awful experience.

Since it is an awful experience, there’s a certain amount of acceptance that must happen. The next 10 days will suck, but you’ll get through it. This too shall pass.

I wrote this article two years ago — take a look for some helpful suggestions. 

In this article, I’ll address some tools you can use to soothe your mind as you gear up for the final stretch as well as tips for during the exam.

Understanding the Stress Response

It’s helpful to understand how the mind and body responds to stressful situations.

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Continue reading over at Jeena’s website…

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