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.
There’s a soft inner voice that says, I am really unhappy. You walk around your house, mopey, with a knot in your stomach on Sunday evenings, dreading the workweek ahead of you. You fantasize about escaping this life, but almost immediately, the practical side of your brain reminds you of the six-figure student loan debt.
You criticize yourself for even thinking about leaving, doing something different. You’ve worked so hard to get here! You should be grateful, you tell yourself.
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You give yourself a pep-talk and march into work on Monday morning. The week crawls by, excruciatingly slow, punctuated by moments of anxiety and even more dread.
Sadly, this is a common story I hear from the lawyers I work with. I was once there too. Knowing that perhaps I took a wrong turn somewhere and ended up in this spot that I wasn’t supposed to be.