Robert Herbst Blog
Coping With COVID-19, and Avoiding the “COVID 19”
After staying home for a month eating comfort food, we have heard the nervous jokes about putting on the “COVID 19,” those extra pounds like the “freshman 15” students are said to gain in college. With more weeks of sheltering at home to come, we need to be serious...
2020 Vision – The Olympics Postponed
The Coronavirus has affected hundreds of millions of people, sometimes with deadly consequences. We now will look to our athletes to show Olympian resiliency and lead us out of this crisis. We and they will bounce back and the world will gather in Tokyo in 2021.
Living Well in the Time of the Coronavirus
How is your stress level? Last week, I had to help get my 20-year-old daughter back from Europe, my 88-year-old mother was isolated in an assisted living facility and not allowed visitors, and the stock market tanked. Then they took away March Madness. This week you...
The Case for Attorney Wellness
Attorney wellness has been like Mark Twain’s view of the weather, everyone was talking about it, but no one was doing anything about it. At last, that is changing. It is generally agreed that lawyers are stressed. See Herbst, Attorney Wellness in a Nutshell, NYSBA...
A Winter Wellness Wonderland
As Simon and Garfunkel wrote in their song “I Am a Rock”: A winter’s dayIn a deep and darkDecemberI am alone…I am a rockI am an island… If you are following through on a New Year’s wellness resolution, those lines may describe how you are feeling as you continue to...