Information About It’s Friday I’m in Law

Melanie Hodges Neufeld I used to sweat the small stuff and struggle to be resilient. Resiliency is defined by the American Psychological Association as: The process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral … Read more »

Before I more freely discussed my chronic illness, I wrote the post What Have I Done To Deserve This? that focused on the high instance of Imposter Syndrome (Phenomenon) in the legal profession. As first described by Dr. Pauline Clance in the late 1970s: Individuals with the Impostor Phenomenon expe … Read more »

Perfectionism often goes hand in hand with the excessive need for control. It’s true in my case and I suspect is a common characteristic for many lawyers. This correlation is explained in the aptly named Psychology Today article, Perfectionism and the Excessive Need for Control. The need for control … Read more »

In my post, Good Enough: Striving for Excellence Not Perfection, I shared a story about folding towels. As I explained, my husband and I fold towels differently and I viewed his method as inferior to my ‘superior’ method. My solution was to take over the task of laundry completely for the last t … Read more »

Some of you may have caught a throwaway line in my last post, Toxic: Redefining Stresslaxing as Toxic Productivity. About halfway through I rather casually mentioned that having a chronic illness just exacerbated my stresslaxing tendencies. It has been my experience that many of my unhealthy tendenc … Read more »