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The Lawyer Burnout Solution

You might think burnout is just part of the deal in law, but it’s really about what we’ve been socialized to believe we “should” be doing to prove ourselves, especially as women. The good news is that you can change those thought patterns and create a career that doesn’t burn you out. Hosted by Heather Mills, a coach and former class action attorney, this show offers practical tools to help you escape burnout culture without sacrificing your career or income. You’ll learn how to restore your

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031 Why Rest Feels Uncomfortable: The Always On Identity

The Lawyer Burnout Solution ·

2025/12/04

If rest feels uncomfortable for you, it is not a personal failing. Many women lawyers struggle to slow down because rest disrupts an identity built on being the one who holds everything together.So many attorneys sit down to rest and feel anything but calm: the buzzing in your chest, the mental to do list, the guilt, the urge to check your email “just in case.” It's easy to assume you're bad at resting. But that reaction isn't a flaw. It's conditioning. It's identity shaped long before your

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030 The Fear of Being Seen As Weak: Why So Many...

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2025/11/26

If you work hard to hide what you really feel at work, it doesn’t mean you’re weak. It means the culture of law taught you that showing emotion isn’t safe.So many lawyers carry their hardest feelings in silence: the lump in the throat during feedback, the tension behind the eyes in a difficult meeting, the shaky voice you try to swallow before anyone notices. The profession rewards composure, not honesty. And over time, those unspoken rules convince you that feeling anything tender or human

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029 The Gratitude Trap: Why “I Should Be Grateful”...

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2025/11/20

If you feel flat or overwhelmed even when you “should be grateful,” you’re not ungrateful. You’re depleted.You can remind yourself you have a good job, a solid paycheck, or meaningful work. You can list all the reasons you should feel thankful. But when your system is overloaded, gratitude becomes a performance instead of a feeling. And that is where so many lawyers get stuck.This episode of The Lawyer Burnout Solution breaks down why “I should be grateful” is often a protective thought

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028 Future You (Part 2): Leading From Calm Confidence...

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2025/11/13

You don’t have to feel calm all the time. You just need three seconds of ground before you speak. That is the start of calm leadership.If you have been holding it all together on adrenaline, this episode builds on Future You (Part 1) and shows how to bring that same inner steadiness into how you lead. When self-trust becomes your baseline, calm confidence follows.Most legal workplaces reward urgency and intensity, but that culture quietly drains focus, creativity, and connection. In this

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027 Future You (Part 1): From Survival Mode to...

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2025/11/06

What if the calm, confident lawyer you keep waiting to become isn’t somewhere in the future, but already here, waiting to be practiced?If you’ve been holding it all together on adrenaline, this episode helps you shift from survival mode to self-trust. Learn practical tools to calm your nervous system, rebuild confidence, and lead yourself with steadier clarity in law.You know that quiet promise you keep making: “Once this trial wraps, once I get through this filing, once I make partner,

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15:08

026 What Medicine Taught Us About Lawyer Wellbeing:...

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2025/10/30

If doctors working 80-hour weeks can significantly reduce burnout through coaching, what might happen if lawyers could too? In this episode, Heather shares the scientific proof that coaching works and what medicine’s research reveals about how lawyers can heal moral injury, rebuild agency, and practice law sustainably.When caring starts to hurt, many lawyers feel powerless. But evidence from medicine offers hope. Two large JAMA-published studies led by Drs. Tyra Fainstad, Adrienne Mann, and

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025 When the System Feels Broken (Part 2): From...

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2025/10/23

After moral injury, many lawyers feel numb. Learn how to move from helplessness to hope and rebuild agency inside a broken system.When caring starts to hurt, many lawyers slip into quiet hopelessness. You’re still performing on paper, but inside, it feels like nothing you do matters.This is Part 2 of our “When the System Feels Broken” series. If you missed Part 1, we explored moral injury:the heartbreak that happens when your values no longer align with the system you serve. This episode

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024 When the System Feels Broken (Part 1): Moral...

The Lawyer Burnout Solution ·

2025/10/16

When the system you serve violates your values, it’s not burnout. It’s moral injury. Learn what that means and how to start healing it.You can follow every rule and still feel like the system you serve isn’t serving you (or your clients) back. You’re not burned out. You’re heartbroken. This episode names the quiet, collective grief so many lawyers are carrying when the work they believed in no longer aligns with the system they serve.In Part 1 of our two-part series “When the System Feels

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Why People-Pleasing Drains Lawyers (and How to Break...

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2025/10/09

If people-pleasing really worked, why does it leave lawyers so depleted? Learn how people-pleasing shows up in law and what it looks like to replace it with self-trust.Ever find yourself saying “yes” when your whole body is screaming “no”? Staying late, smoothing things over, volunteering when you’re already stretched thin because you don’t want to risk tension or look unhelpful?In this episode, we’re breaking down one of the quietest (and most rewarded) causes of burnout in law:

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022 Lawyer Burnout Is Real: My Story and Why This...

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2025/10/02

Lawyer burnout is real. I share my story as a former litigator and why women lawyers don’t have to keep surviving this way.On paper, I had it all. I was a plaintiffs-side civil rights litigator handling complex class actions. I looked driven, competent, and successful. But behind the curtain, I was exhausted, cynical, and constantly second-guessing myself. I thought I was the only one who felt this way. Looking back, I know that wasn’t true.In this episode of The Lawyer Burnout Solution, I

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021 Rethinking the Voice in Your Head: A Lawyer’s...

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2025/09/25

Your inner critic isn’t truth. It’s training. If you’re a woman lawyer stuck in self-doubt, overwork, or perfectionism, here’s how to stop letting that voice run your career and start leading with confidence.Most lawyers know this voice: “You’re not smart enough.” “You should be further along by now.” “If you slow down, they’ll think you can’t hack it.”It feels urgent because your brain registers it as survival code. But it’s not truth. It’s conditioning from law school, culture, and years

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020 What Sunday Night Dread Is Really Telling You...

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2025/09/18

Sunday night dread isn’t proof you’re not committed. It’s your nervous system preparing you for overwhelm, judgment, and self-doubt; and with the right tools, you can retrain it.Do you ever feel that pit in your stomach on Sunday nights? You’ve spent the weekend with family, maybe caught up on errands, maybe even tried to rest. But as the sun sets, your chest tightens and your brain starts whispering: “I should’ve billed more. I should’ve drafted more. I should’ve gotten ahead.”Most lawyers

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019 The Lawyer-Parent Double Bind: Why It Feels Like...

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2025/09/11

Law demands all of you. Parenting does too. Why the lawyer-parent double bind makes you feel like you’re failing everywhere.This episode unpacks why the double bind hits women lawyers who are parents especially hard, how it quietly drains your energy and joy, and why feeling stretched and guilty in every direction isn’t a personal failing. It’s the product of competing cultural scripts.From day one, lawyers are trained to prove their worth through hours, perfection, and relentless

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018 The Hidden Curriculum of Law: How We Were Trained...

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2025/09/04

In law, no one hands you a guide to the hidden curriculum, but every lawyer absorbs it. Rules about hours, availability, mistakes, and even what “professional” looks like. This episode unpacks how those unspoken rules distort women lawyers’ sense of worth, loyalty, and belonging, and why it is time to rewrite them.This is part two of a two-part series. In Episode 17, we explored the badges of honor in law. In Episode 18, we go deeper into the hidden curriculum.From day one, the legal

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017 Why Exhaustion Became a Badge of Honor in Law

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2025/08/28

In law, long hours are treated as the measure of success. But that doesn’t mean they reflect your true value. This episode unpacks how exhaustion became a badge of honor in legal culture — and what it’s costing women lawyers.From day one, lawyers are trained to see exhaustion as excellence. Billing the most hours, being always available, saying yes to everything; these aren’t just habits. They’re the unspoken markers of belonging in a profession that rewards sacrifice over

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016 The WHAT IF It Gets to Be Good? Series: Reclaim...

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2025/08/21

Your job is just one canvas. Learn how to expand who you are beyond law and lead from your whole self.“I don’t even know who I am outside of this job.”If you’ve ever had that thought, nothing has gone wrong. You are evolving. This episode explores why so many women lawyers tie their identity to their career, why it fuels stress and burnout, and how to reclaim a sense of self that actually sustains you.When your entire worth gets filtered through billable hours, reputation, or case results,

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015 Redefining Success in Your Legal Career: Making...

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2025/08/14

If your legal career looks impressive but feels misaligned, it’s time to redefine success. Learn how to align your work with your values, reclaim fulfillment, and build a sustainable legal career, without walking away from law. Perfect for mid-career lawyers and women attorneys ready to create a path that actually fits who they are now.Discover how to redefine success in your legal career so it reflects the person you’ve become, not just the one who started your journey in law. Explore why

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014 When Success Isn’t Enough: A Lawyer’s Path Back...

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2025/08/07

When success stops feeling good: discover why high-achieving women lawyers feel stuck in stress and how to reconnect with what you truly want.This episode kicks off a new series, What If It Gets to Be Good?, a 3-part invitation for women lawyers who are ready to stop performing and start feeling fully alive again.You’ve built a successful legal career. You’re respected, capable, and still getting things done. But inside, something’s missing.You’ve lost the clarity that used to drive

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013 You’re Still Performing, But You’re Not Okay: The...

The Lawyer Burnout Solution ·

2025/07/31

Still getting everything done, but feeling off, numb, or on edge? You may be moving through one of the 5 lawyer stress zones. Here's how to tell.You don’t have to be falling apart to be burning out.For high-achieving women in law, burnout rarely looks like collapse. It looks like competence. Responsiveness. Excellence—on the outside. While inside, your nervous system is quietly sounding the alarm.If you've ever thought, “I’m still functioning, so I must be fine," this episode will change

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012 When Burnout Steals Your Joy: How Women Lawyers...

The Lawyer Burnout Solution ·

2025/07/24

That sense of flatness, even around things you used to love? It’s not you - it’s your nervous system in survival mode. Let’s talk about how to find joy again.When you're stuck in burnout, it’s not just your energy that disappears—it’s your emotional range. You might look like you're holding it together, but inside? You're numb. Exhausted. Disconnected from the spark that used to light you up.In this episode of The Lawyer Burnout Solution, we dig into why that happens—especially for women in

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