HeyJaredHow We Recover From Burnout
Writer. Award-winning speaker. Lawyer. Writing about my life as high-achieving women who has broken free from performance conditioning and reclaimed my autonomy, self-worth, and personal power—without guilt, apology, or permission. staceylstevens.substack.com
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How Do You Stop Bringing Work Stress Home? Start With the Voice That Asks If You're Going to Let That Go (opens the original)
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I talk a lot about work. Statistics about work, what work costs, what the profession asks of you. I know. But we all have to go home at some point, and today I want to talk about how to stop bringing work stress home when you walk in still wearing your full workplace armour. Here’s how I discovered it. How do you stop bringing work stress home? You catch the transfer while it’s happening, in the half second between the thought and the emotion that follows it. You do not do it by arriving home re
Should I Quit My Job or Push Through Burnout? After 40 Years in Law, Neither One Worked (opens the original)
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If you are burnt out right now, you have already been handed two options. Leave, or push through. I’ve done both across more than 40 years in the legal profession, and I want to say this plainly to anyone lying awake at 9 pm on a Monday asking, “Should I quit my job or push through burnout?” Neither one was the actual solution for me, and I don’t think it will be for you either. Should I quit my job or push through burnout? Neither, not as the first move. Both options target your circumstances,
Early Signs of Burnout: Your Body May Be Telling You Recovery Has Stopped (opens the original)
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You can have your annual physical. Your blood work can come back fine. Your doctor can tell you everything looks good. And you can still find yourself thinking: If everything’s okay, then why do I feel like this? I think this is one of the hardest parts of burnout to recognize. The early signs of burnout rarely arrive with a big announcement. They show up in pieces, and we get very good at explaining each piece away. I know because I’ve done it. What are the early signs of burnout? The early sig
Self-Advocacy for Women Lawyers: Why I Spent 20 Years Not Doing It (opens the original)
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In the last article, I went through two studies, one Canadian and one American, on what the ecosystem of law costs the women working inside it. Same profession, same hours, same pressure as the men beside us, and the numbers still come back worse for us in every study I have read. What is self-advocacy for women lawyers? Self-advocacy is the work you already do on a file, aimed at your own situation instead of a client’s: establishing the facts, identifying what is needed, stating the theory out
Why Women Lawyers Burn Out Faster Than Men (opens the original)
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In the last two episodes, I gave you a lot of data. Two national studies, two countries, both arriving at the same conclusion: women in the legal profession are burning out faster than men, and it isn’t because of individual resilience. Once resilience is off the table, the question of why women lawyers burn out faster than men stops being a question about us and becomes a question about the design of the thing we’re standing in. That’s what I want to answer today. One thing first, because it wi
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