Wellness Resources

Wellness Programs

The State Bar of New Mexico Provides 4 Wellness Programs:

NM Well-Being Committee

Well-being focus and concern with respect to the NM legal community. Goal is to examine and create initiatives centered around wellness.

NM Well-Being Committee

Addresses and provides resources for mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health and substance use struggles within the New Mexico legal community.

New Mexico Lawyer Assistance Program

Free service for all members of the State Bar of NM and law students.

NM LAP

Confidential assistance to help identify and address problems with alcohol, drugs, depression, mental health/emotional disorders, and issues related to cognitive impairment.

Employee Assistance Program

Free service for members, their families and employees offered by NM LAP that is provided by The Solutions Group

Employee Assistance Program

4 free counseling sessions/issue/year, management consultation, stress mgt. education, critical incident stress debriefing, 24X7 call center.

NM Judicial Wellness Program

Promotes health and wellness among NM Judges with programs that support overall mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health.

Judicial Wellness Program

Safe, confidential program for judges to connect where they can receive the help and support they need without job related consequences.

Well-Being: A Deeper Dive

Well-being can be defined as the combination of feeling good and functioning well. While much of the discussion focuses on getting a good night’s sleep, eating well, exercising and practicing mindfulness, well-being is so much more than that. That “much more” is a journey that involves the process of looking inward, taking an honest self-inventory of our strengths and challenges, and wiring, rewiring, framing and reframing our inner thoughts about how we see ourselves, how we see the world and how we respond to challenges to our well-being. It’s about our internal and external emotional stability, engagement, meaning, relationships, resilience, self-esteem and more. It’s about a journey from doing just enough to “white knuckle it” to the next day before we start our routines over again to reaching “eudaimonic” well-being (e.g., finding meaning in life, experiencing a sense of personal growth, being autonomous in one’s own decisions and behaviors) and hedonic well-being (e.g., feeling happy, being satisfied with one’s own life). See Perspective of the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness1.

In 2023, the NM Well-Being Committee will take a closer look at what well-being really means for attorneys and legal professionals. Through a series of podcasts and articles, we’ll dive deeper to learn from members of the legal profession about their personal well-being journey; how those members moved from meeting the bare minimum requirements needed to get through the day to exceeding the bare minimum by building their inner resilience to meet challenges in their lives, making lasting changes to improve their lives, and living their lives with purpose and passion; in short, to be well.

Well-Being: A Deeper Dive