LifeSpeak, an anonymous online platform, offers free resources focused on mental wellness
The Law Society of British Columbia has announced a new campaign providing mental wellness resources and practical strategies to help BC legal professionals and their families strengthen relationships, navigate difficult conversations, and improve their confidence in different contexts.
In 2023, the BC law society began LifeSpeak, an anonymous online platform offering free videos, blogs, and other content centred on mental wellness for its members and their loved ones. The law society has now launched LifeSpeak’s fostering authentic connections campaign.
According to the law society’s news release, the new campaign aims to help BC lawyers:
The law society said that the campaign features videos covering how to balance parenthood with other relationships (five minutes long), fulfill one’s role as a caregiver (six minutes long), make the right financial decisions (one minute long), and use a leadership approach aiming to strengthen connections (five minutes long).
The campaign also includes blogs focused on maintaining a healthy dialogue for fulfilling relationships, handling an unexpected caregiving role, managing stress arising from money matters, and understanding deep feelers in the workplace.
The BC law society stressed that connections – whether with loved ones, friends, or colleagues – impact all aspects of one’s life, well-being, and growth. However, building healthy and authentic bonds has challenges, including caregiving demands, tough conversations, and feeling underappreciated in the workplace, the law society’s news release said.
The BC law society reminded its members that it also has a lawyer well-being hub, which offers mental health videos, tools, information, and other resources, including free and confidential counselling services for lawyers, their families, and articled students dealing with stress, anxiety, substance use issues, and problems at work or with their relationships.
The hub features the law society’s mental health task force, equity advisor, alternative discipline process, lawyers assistance program, lawyer well-being FAQs, practice advice, and personal counselling and referral services through TELUS Health One.
