ABOUT THIS EPISODE
As we produce newer content for the weeks ahead, we’re taking the opportunity to bring back a powerful conversation from the Coopers’ Code archives.
This episode revisits Miles’s conversation with Roslyn Whitney, MS, on stress management, wellness, emotional resilience, and the pressures of working in the legal profession.
Full episode here:
YouTube: https://youtu.be/IRyJkBNZcBA
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/59rnoh5RtCsu90lxCFUgH1?si=utZzyz3GQ42NKnUI1M3ErA
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/roslyn-whitney-stress-management-health-and-wellness/id1679622653?i=1000647910826
Roslyn Whitney is a consultant, counselor, and thought leader who brings a deep and varied background to her work with lawyers and other professionals. Her experience spans counseling, coaching, substance abuse prevention, crisis support, professional development, and the wider human potential movement.
Miles first came to know Roslyn through a deeply personal chapter in his own life. After his young daughter had gone through chemotherapy, radiation, and surgical treatment, Miles found himself carrying the emotional aftermath of that experience while continuing to function in the demanding world of trial law. Roslyn helped him work through that period, and this conversation explores many of the tools and insights that emerged from that work.
In this episode, Miles and Roslyn discuss stress and stress management in the legal profession, including practical ways to recenter in high-pressure moments, stay grounded in adversarial environments, and maintain focus without losing touch with one’s own emotional life.
They also explore the broader patterns that affect lawyers’ health and satisfaction, from burnout and substance use to self-awareness, vulnerability, communication, professional identity, and the challenge of building a sustainable life inside a combative career.
Roslyn’s backstory brings an unusual range of experience to the conversation. She has talked people down in detox tents at rock festivals, helped establish the first drug and alcohol treatment program for the 101st Airborne, developed training protocols for rape crisis center volunteers, and explored practices ranging from counseling and coaching to firewalking and the human potential movement.
Whether you heard the conversation the first time or are discovering it now, this episode is a useful reminder that stress management does not always require complicated tools. Sometimes the most powerful place to start is with awareness, breath, connection, and the willingness to ask what is really going on beneath the surface.
More about Roslyn Whitney:
We’ll be back with new episodes soon. Until then, thanks for listening, and enjoy this conversation with Roslyn Whitney.
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Hosted by Miles Cooper
Produced by Mauro Serra | Kenji Productions
Recorded & Co-produced by Zach Morvant | www.zmorvant.com
Music by The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble
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