A heart monitor showed 231 beats per minute. Paul Richmond on the practice that was killing him, and what he changed.

September marks both Suicide Prevention and Recovery Awareness Month. Leslie Hagin on why the two belong together for lawyers.

Dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, endorphins. The four chemicals behind your mood, and the daily habits that raise each one.

BIPOC lawyers carry higher rates of anxiety and burnout, and lower rates of asking for help. What actually reaches them.

Washington recorded 55 lawyer suicides in six years, more than nine a year. The real number is almost certainly higher.

Two national campaigns, one message: more good days together. What those mottos get right about lawyer mental health.

The least-discussed addiction in the profession, and among the most financially devastating. Why lawyers are exposed.

Secondary trauma is an occupational hazard of legal work, not a personal failing. How to recognise it, and what helps.

A Washington attorney and problem-gambling board member on why confidential, independent peer support matters here.

Sober for a decade, then law school. One lawyer on what running gave him, what it could not, and the support missing.

Tokyo Bar Association leaders came to meet WaLAL's board. What Japan wanted to learn from a Washington peer support model.

“I am an alcoholic, a drug addict, and a lawyer.” A functional attorney on when bullet-proof stopped working.

Free one-hour WSBA ethics CLE. Andy Benjamin on the stress pathway leading lawyers to depression, addiction and heart disease.

A volunteer peer counselor on why helping other lawyers recover keeps strengthening his own recovery.

Dan Lukasik, JD, has given more than 200 talks on depression. Here he speaks about surviving a suicide in his own family.

Thirty years of practice, 24 years sober, one THC gummy taken by mistake. David Huber on what happened next.

Disability rights lawyer Andrew Imparato on three decades of leadership while living with bipolar disorder.

Facing grief with more to come, Washington lawyer Patrick Preston did what most lawyers avoid. He asked for help.

Three decades as a civil rights lawyer before anyone named it. A frank account of secondary PTSD and recovery.

“Marijuana is safer than alcohol, right?” A lawyer in recovery on the research that changed his mind.