Mens Sana: A Motion for Mental Health

Kaitlyn is struggling today -- her looming potential PMDD has her in a bit of a rut. But, we manage to provide you with some hopefully helpful #WFH tips and a reminder that you are not just working from home, you are home during a pandemic trying to get work done. 

Kaitlyn & Laura talk through their social media woes and offer some options for how to use social media to help create some normalcy, most of which revolve around TikTok and pretending we understand the language of Gen Z. 

After a (not so) brief hiatus, Kaitlyn and Laura are BACK with some raw, unfiltered mental health #content to get us all through quarantine. We are keeping things low pressure for the indefinite future and even introducing a video component! Check out our Instagram @amotionformentalhealth for a sneak preview. We missed you!!

Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Join Kaitlyn and Laura as they discuss all things introversion with 2-time ABA published author and Brooklyn Law professor Heidi K. Brown. Heidi describes the difference between introverts and extroverts and how being an introvert can make law school and lawyer life difficult to navigate. She shares her personal experiences and how she found her voice in a profession that encourages extroversion. As always, we send you off with some happy pills and homework.

Remember that Above the Law article about William and Mary's health center mishandling law students' mental health from a few years ago? We had the chance to speak with Ryan Walkenhorst (JD '19), one of the main subjects of the article and the mastermind behind W&M's overhaul of its mental health environment, for an exclusive BTS look into her experience working with the administration to build the supportive environment that now exists there. Ryan also shares her happy pills and homework but Kaitlyn & Laura forgot to mention theirs so I guess you'll just have to stay tuned for next week to hear their latest updates!

Join Laura and Kaitlyn as they learn about the errors of their extroverted ways, play a rousing game of personal + mental health trivia, and distinguish between ashtrays and asstrays. As always we close out the episode by sharing our happy pills for the week-no homework for you this time!

Laura drives into a field Michael Scott style, we're starting a mental health book club, and we finally get to the point and rattle off tons of mental health resources that you can access right from your phone. As always, we close out the episode by sharing our happy pills and homework.

Kaitlyn and Laura review some staggering statistics about mental health in the US and discuss the apparent lack of available and accessible mental health resources. As always, we send you off with some happy pills and homework.

We finally teamed up with Jack and David, hosts of the podcast "Law School After Dark", to talk all things mental health during and after law school. The team talks through the difficulties of law school, Kaitlyn & Laura share bar exam horrors and study tips and how being a lawyer isn't much different than law school, and we all share some happy pills & home work. Moral of the episode? Treat the bar exam like World of Warcraft and you'll be just fine! 

Laura, Matt, and Kaitlyn continue the discussion on LGBTQIA+ mental health. They talk ways for employers and individuals to effectively bridge gaps between diverse communities, share wisdom from RuPaul, and discuss ways to approach the holigay season. 

Kaitlyn, Laura, and their special guest Matt kick off the first episode of their diversity-focused mini-series! They discuss all things mental health for the LGBTQIA+ community, diversity versus inclusion, and personal takes on how identification impacts mental health. 

Laura and Kaitlyn discuss how we as lawyers can work to make sure our holidays are actually happy. As always, we send you off with some happy pills and homework.

Kaitlyn and Laura explore a few of the many ways that being a lawyer can affect mental health and contribute to mental illness on a daily basis. We bring in perspectives from a civil litigator, a public defender, and a big law healthcare lawyer from NYC and share some examples of stigma we heard from our listeners after Episode 2. As always, we send you off with some happy pills and homework.