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The Institute for Well-Being in Law is kicking off Mental Health Awareness month with Well-Being Week in Law from May 4 to 8. The Institute for Well-Being in Law is providing individuals and organizations with a variety of tips, tools and ideas for activities designed to improve and optimize your well-being.

The 2026 Well-Being Week in Law theme is "Tending Joy". Tending joy doesn’t mean minimizing real challenges - it means equipping ourselves to face them. Research shows that positive emotions like joy are functional psychological mechanisms that broaden our thinking, build durable personal resources and create upward spirals toward greater well-being. Positive emotions like joy help repair the physiological effects of stress, accelerate cardiovascular recovery and expand our capacity to solve problems and connect with others.

Active State Bar of New Mexico licensees should be on the lookout for emails leading up to Well-Being Week in Law and daily social media posts from May 4 - 8 on the State Bar of New Mexico's Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn profiles that will provide the legal community with useful information on how to tend joy during Well-Being Week in Law and beyond. 

Well-Being Week in Law activities and more information about the events for the week can be found at: https://wellbeingweek.org.