50 Lessons for Happy Lawyers: Boost Wellness. Build Resilience. Yes, you can!

“As a lawyer and now as the Executive Director of ADAA, I think about happiness and purpose daily. I found many of the suggestions in 50 Lessons for Happy Lawyers both insightful and practical. I will be sharing the book with my lawyer friends as well as those who may be considering becoming a lawyer. We lawyers need a book like this. Thank you.” —Susan K. Gurley, Executive Director, Anxiety and Depression Association of America

Following the success of her first two books, 50 Lessons for Lawyers: Earn More - Stress Less - Be Awesome and 50 Lessons for Women Lawyers – From Women Lawyers, law firm coach and author Nora Riva Bergman is returning with a new installment, 50 Lessons for Happy Lawyers: Boost Wellness – Build Resilience – Yes, you can! For this book Bergman has teamed up with Chelsy A. Castro, CEO and Founder of Castro Jacobs Psychotherapy and Consulting (CJPC), a firm specializing in lawyer well-being. An attorney turned psychotherapist and performance coach, Castro counsels individuals and the organizations they work for on how to achieve their goals in healthy and productive ways.

Bergman and Castro combine their own expert knowledge and share science-based strategies to help you live a happier, healthier, more resilient life. The authors have come to realize that, like the law, happiness is a practice. It is something we can build – little by little – bit by bit – every day. While we cannot merely flip a switch and become happy, we can cultivate happiness. We can practice happiness. Their book gives you the science-backed tools to do just that.

Like the first two books in the 50 Lessons for Lawyers series, 50 Lessons for Happy Lawyers is designed so that readers can choose to read from beginning to end or skip around to find the lessons most relevant to them – regardless of where they are in their careers or lives. They also include a section at the end of each lesson with tips to help you Live the Lesson and put the lesson to work for you.

50 Lessons for Happy Lawyers is expansive in its scope, covering topics from how to identify and beat burnout to why resilience is so important to the positive impact that exercise, sleep, recovery, laughing, crying, nature, beauty, volunteering, and even daydreaming can have on the happiness you experience in life. Bergman and Castro remain practical in their advice. Their book is timely and centered around the idea that there are specific things you can do every day to live a happier life. Yes, you can!