The Mississippi Bar
Wellness is an active process of becoming aware of and making choices toward a healthy and fulfilling life. The Bar is committed to advancing the well-being of its members through the provision of resources dedicated to lawyer wellness. In support of this commitment, the Board of Bar Commissioners adopted the national Well-Being Pledge for Legal Employers and encourages other legal employers in Mississippi to do the same.
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Intellectual Wellness is being engaged in creative and mentally stimulating activities to promote optimal cognitive functioning. 15 Ways to Develop Yourself at Home Track Your Small Wins to Motivate Big Accomplishments |
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Social Wellness is maintaining relationships with others that encourage connections, mutual benefits, and decrease harm to others. Want Stronger Relationships at Work? Change the Way You Listen TED Talk: Are you a Giver or Taker Brene Brown on What Vulnerability Isn't |
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Emotional Wellness is having awareness, understanding, and acceptance of our feelings, and our ability to manage challenges and change. Burnout Prevention and Treatment Workplace Stress Management: 11 Best Strategies and Worksheets |
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Physical Wellness includes physical activity and nutrition to bring about optimal health and functioning. TED Talk: Sleep is Your Superpower Reframe How You Think About Self-Care |
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Financial Wellness is a sense of control over your day-to-day, month-to-month finances and having the financial freedom to make choices to enjoy life in the present. It is also the capacity to absorb a financial shock while feeling that you are on track to meet your financial goals. Financial Well-Being: What It Means and How to Help 5 Steps to Get Retirement Ready Attorneys and Financial Wellness: The Forgotten Wellness Topic |
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Occupational Health is maintaining an optimal attitude and the capacity to perform and produce work that contributes to everyone's daily life. It includes the potential to balance work and home life, the ability to handle workplace stress and have good relationships with coworkers. Managing Yourself: Turn the Job You Have into the Job You Want How to Stop Languishing and Start Finding Flow |
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Environmental Wellness promotes interaction with nature and your personal environment. Becoming aware of daily habits and how they affect where we live helps to develop environmental consciousness. |
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Spiritual Wellness is being connected to something greater than self and having a set of morals, values, and beliefs that provide a purpose and meaning of life. Judges’ Well-Being and the Ted Talk: There is More than Life than Being Happy 21 Spiritual Goal Examples to Help You Grow in 2022 Just Released: New Finding on Character Strengths Spiritual Wellness is an Important Part of Your Overall Wellness
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Please feel free to reach out to the Mississippi Lawyers and Judges Assistance Program for assistance at 601-948-4475 or jcole@msbar.org.
