Season 3
Episodes
Nature's Prescription: the power of being in nature for lawyers
Kathleen Brenner and Carla Ferraz discuss why many lawyers struggle to switch off mentally after work and how nature can provide a different kind of recovery beyond productivity strategies. They connect legal work’s...
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The Cognitive Burden of Lawyering: Managing Mental Load for Peak Performance
Kathleen Brenner and Carla Ferraz discuss how lawyers’ late-day reactivity, procrastination, inbox checking, irritability, and forgetfulness may stem from decision fatigue and cognitive overload rather than lack of...
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Mindfulness for Lawyers: Attention Control Under Pressure
Mindfulness for Lawyers: Training Attention Under Pressure (Beyond the Buzzword) Kathleen Brenner and Carla Ferraz continue their Thriving Lawyer miniseries on legal pressure by exploring mindfulness as a foundation...
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3.2 The Hypervigilance Loop: Why “Being on Top of Things” Can Become a Trap
Kathleen Brenner and Carla Ferraz continue their discussion of why lawyers struggle to switch off by focusing on hypervigilance: a persistent, threat-scanning mode that can remain active even when nothing is wrong....
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3.1 - Why Lawyers Can’t Switch Off (and what actually helps)
Kathleen Brenner and Carla Ferraz begin a 2026 miniseries on thriving under real legal pressure, focusing on recovery and the ability to switch off. They explain why many lawyers stay in a constant “partial on-call”...
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