One of my fellow bloggers on the ImmigrationProf blog, Kit Johnson, has started a regular feature called “Care Center” for self-care for immigration law professors. It is hard to think of many more stressful areas of law today than immigration law. I get stressed out from just keeping up with current developments. See, e.g., here. And much more stressed thinking about the human impacts of immigration law and its enforcement. See, e.g., here; here.
It struck me that, in these times more than ever, law professors generally should be thinking about self-care. Students are stressed. Our families are stressed. Universities and law schools are stressed.
Kit’s first post on Care Center focuses on rest. She highlights this recent article from the American Psychological Association: Seven types of rest to help restore your body’s energy:
- physical rest
- mental rest
- emotional rest
- social rest
- sensory rest
- creative rest
- spiritual rest
One of my stress-reducing activities besides exercise is fiction reading, which helps explain my Michael Connolly The Proving Ground book post today and others, such as the recent one on John Grisham book The Widow.
