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Career Transitions Made Easier With Neuroscience Tools

Use this information to make navigating situations like changing jobs, leaving the law, or retiring easier on yourself.

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Ed. note: This post is by Jeena Cho, a Legal Mindfulness Strategist. 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. She is the creator of Mindful Pause, a self-paced online program for creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and productive law practice in just six minutes a day. Jeena offers actionable change strategies for reducing stress and anxiety while increasing productivity, joy, and satisfaction through mindfulness.

Laura Mahr is the founder of Conscious Legal Minds LLC, providing mindfulness and neuroscience-based coaching, training, and consulting for attorneys and law offices nationwide. I had the opportunity to sit down and interview her about how to use the tools of neuroscience to navigate changes.

Jeena: What are the common challenges you see lawyers struggle with when navigating career transitions?

Laura: I work with many lawyers who want to leave behind the unhappiness and overwhelm of their current job and are desperately hoping to find a career where they can feel more balanced.

The most common challenges I see lawyers struggle with are fear and doubt. Doubt that what they most want to happen — like having greater ease, satisfaction, and freedom in their lives — won’t. And fear that the things they don’t want to happen — like destabilization and more debt.

Whether we are contemplating changing jobs, leaving the law, or retiring, making career transitions can feel risky, especially for lawyers.

As lawyers, we are trained to protect our clients by sussing out the worst-case scenario for every situation. While this trait helps us to do our jobs well, it can create problems when we want to make a career shift. “Worst-case scenario thinking” can replace our hopes about a better future with feelings of self-doubt and inadequacy that can prevent us from taking action. This often leaves us feeling trapped in our current situation.

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When we feel trapped, we often criticize ourselves for being stuck and ruminate on self-defeating thoughts that lead to everything from insomnia to anxiety and depression.

Read Laura’s full interview over at Jeena’s website…

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