Almost everyone, even lawyers and law students have experienced a time when a personal problem or crisis affected their life. Recognizing this, your State Bar, over the past several years, has instituted a variety of ways to support our members when they may need it most. This independent website is dedicated to providing you with the information you need about the programs and resources available to the members of our South Dakota legal community and their families.
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Featured Coffee Break Speaker
Beth Walz Davis
Beth will be speaking at the August 19th coffee break on dealing with loss.
From Beth: “We are a death and grief phobic culture. We don’t know how to talk about death, nor are we comfortable with personal and communal grief. This community has recently suffered significant losses. Let’s come together to explore what it means to deal with loss, not just death, but loss in its many forms, and offer mutual support to one another.”
Beth retired at the end of 2017 as President of Dakota Resources, a non-profit that served rural communities, to pursue her passion for normalizing death in this culture and directly supporting individuals and small groups in their emerging journeys. She is a certified End of Life Doula with a BA in Psychology and Religion from Augustana College with personal experience in helping people through the dying process.
Health & Wellness
Wellness is an active process of becoming aware of and making choices toward a healthy and fulfilling life. The Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers and Lawyers Assistance Committees are committed to advancing the well-being of South Dakota lawyers and law students through the provision of resources dedicated to lawyer wellness.
Intellectual Health
Intellectual Wellness is being engaged in creative and mentally stimulating activities to promote optimal cognitive functioning.
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Social Health
Social Wellness is maintaining relationships with others that encourage connections, mutual benefits, and decrease harm to others.
Emotional Health
Emotional Wellness is having awareness, understanding, and acceptance of our feelings, and our ability to manage challenges and change.
Physical Health
Physical Wellness includes physical activity and nutrition to bring about optimal health and functioning.
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Financial Health
Financial Wellness is a sense of control over your day-to-day, month-to-month finances and having the financial freedom to make choices to enjoy life in the present. It is also the capacity to absorb a financial shock while feeling that you are on track to meet your financial goals.
Occupational
Health
Occupational Health is maintaining an optimal attitude and the capacity to perform and produce work that contributes to everyone's daily life. It includes the potential to balance work and home life, the ability to handle workplace stress and have good relationships with coworkers.