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Understanding How Stress Becomes an Automatic Response

Your eyes snap open. It’s 3:17 AM. Before you're even fully conscious, your mind is already racing: that legal opinion letter is due tomorrow. Did I catch everything? What if I miss something? Maybe I need to do more research, it’s so complicated . . . Your heart pounds as you lie there, knowing you should sleep but unable to stop the mental churn.

Sound familiar?

If this scenario resonates, you might be caught in what psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Judson Brewer calls an anxiety habit loop — a specific type of mental loop ...

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."  –William James

A Return Years in the Making

It was a crisp morning at the Bowles Rice Thrive in '25 attorney retreat. As I stood before a ballroom full of colleagues—some who knew parts of my story, others who had only heard fragments—I felt the weight of this moment.  After 10 years away, I had returned to Bowles Rice.

Behind the Mask of Success

For over two decades, I wore the mask of a successful attorney. Harvard Law School grad. Equity partner. High achiever. Someone who had "made it" by every ...