This website is intended to serve as a centralized location for self-care and mental health, offering a variety of available resources that a Texas Law student might find useful for practicing self-care.
Be sure to also check out the guide that Tarlton Law Library has recently made available: https://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/wellness/overview. Our website differs only in that it is student envisioned, student created, and student maintained.
A secondary goal behind the creation of this website is to highlight the importance of self-care in both the law student experience and the legal profession itself. Law students have mental health issues at rates far higher than any other graduate program. Law students can change the narrative of mental health and self-care in the legal profession if mental health discussions are normalized, if peer-to-peer forms of assistance are developed early, and self-care practices are learned along-side the black-letter law.
The website will continue to grow, so long as students are willing to contribute, update, and build on the foundation. Any and all self-care resource referrals are welcome, whether they are offered by fellow students, administration, professors, or third parties.
Self-care itself may be defined in a number of different ways. You may notice a number of resources throughout this website that do not correlate to popular notions of what self-care looks like. Although self-care may take the form of bubble baths, vacations, or meditations, this guide does not limit the scope of its definition to only relaxation methods. Self-care differs from individual to individual, and from experience to experience. Self-care may look very different during finals than it does during one's summer internship. Self-care may be a bubble bath, or self-care may be taking out the trash. This guide defines practicing self-care as partaking in any activity, practice, or effort which: