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What are ways you fit wellness and self-care into your day?

Get Inspired! Life in legal is often stressful, making it hard to carve out time for yourself. These members and business partners share how they take time for some self-care. We all know that it is important to take care of ourselves but making time for it isn’t always easy. Here are their tips – and some fun photos!

Walking & Meditation: sometimes alone – sometimes with a partner

Meditation

A long walk every day with my spouse or other family member and without cellphones is good for the body and the soul.

Steve Brush, Esq.

Walking every day at lunch or after dinner for at least a half hour.

Jill M. V. Richter, Esq., Title IV-D Attorney,

Bucks County Domestic Relations Section

I try to get in a 5-mile walk every day.

Susan Levy Eisenberg, Esquire

I live in an area where walking around our neighborhood includes about a mile long of hills and valleys. I walk in the evenings with other neighbors, all of whom are working moms. We have scheduled walks just before it gets dark and the kids are either with the other parent or in bed. All of us try to make it at least twice per week, if not more often. Although I am pretty free to walk at any time of the day, our neighborhood’s working moms prefer the later evening hours.

María Judith Rodríguez-Martyak, Esq.

I use a daily positive meditation reading, use the swimming pool and also go to Planet Fitness for the 30-minute exercise room as well as treadmill and bike. My wife and I attend together and it is something we look forward to and feel great afterwards.

Greg B. Emmons, Esq., G Emmons Law, LLC

A nice walk around the block after dinner.

Julie D. Goldstein, Esq., BCBA President,

Fox Rothschild LLP

I meditate on the lamrim

Carla V. Risoldi, Esq.

Meditation

Morris Kaplan, Esq.

Walking AND meditation, thinking, & mindfulness

Any day that starts with a long, head-clearing walk usually turns out to be a good one. I wish I did it more. No excuses.

Matthew D. Weintraub, Esq., Bucks County District Attorney

For me, I have a transition period between work and “not work.” Whether I am working from the office or remotely (we are doing hybrid these days), I always go for a walk after the work day. It is just kind of built into my schedule, so my wife knows I am not available until after my walk. If the weather isn’t cooperative, I will use my treadmill, but I certainly get more joy from being in the outdoors. From both a mental and physical perspective, the walk is just something I need. Glenn Neiman, Esq., Brilliant & Neiman LLC

Just time alone to clear your mind with something you WANT to do

Fresh cup of coffee in the morning with a quick read of newspaper or book for 15 minutes or so. Arlene Simolike, Esq., Metka Law, LLC

Sports

Playing sports with my family whenever possible. Frank Mazzeo, Esq., Ryder, Mazzeo, Konieczny, LLC

The gym

I am an active member at the Fairless Hills branch of the YMCA. As far as eating and drinking go, I reform every Monday. :) Denis W. Lanctot, Esq., Jackson Cook Caracappa & Scott P.C.

I go to the gym almost daily as part of my wellness and self-care. Gina H. Kiley, Esq., Curtin & Heefner LLP

I attend Orangetheory Fitness 3 times per week. On weekends I go hiking. In the winter I referee high school basketball.

Hon. Mark Douple, Magisterial District Judge

Bike / Peloton

Riding the Peloton every morning

Eric Marttila, Esq.

Rowing

Rowing machine—every other day. Praying to God—every day. Brisk early morning walks in a local park with my wife— every few days. D. Keith Brown, Esq., Stuckert & Yates

Karate

I have studied karate for more than twelve years and find that daily practice of the martial arts is a great way to clear my brain of work troubles that I would otherwise dwell upon. As with any meditation, I can leave the criminal defense facts and writer’s block outside of my mind. Bonnie Keagy, Esq., Keagy Law

Ping pong

Bill Cowan, Newtown Table Tennis Club President, from Nationals in Las Vegas William M Cowan, Jr., Esq., Cowan & Kelly

Cardio/Weight Loss

I spend much more time on self-care these days. As a 6-factor candidate for Covid complications I’ve contrived to finally loose some weight by eating more carefully. I also get at least an hour of cardio each day. Of course I wish I had kept this routine in me 30s/40s but I was too anxious to be moving the work. One of my father’s favorite lines: “If I knew then what I know now...” Yours is a worthy campaign. William L. Antheil, Esq., Antheil Maslow MacMinn