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Why your nervous system is the real reason you're burning out and how to reclaim your career without leaving the profession.
Chronic stress changes the brain. Decision-making and critical thinking narrow while threat detection ramps up, and even simple tasks start to feel insurmountable.
This session goes beyond burnout symptom management. Attendees leave with neuroscience-backed strategies to rewire the patterns keeping their nervous system in fight-or-flight, regulate faster, improve their mental health, and sustain high performance.
The content addresses the limitations of traditional wellness advice and provides a framework for identifying subconscious belief systems that drive overachievement and exhaustion. By focusing on nervous system regulation and self-worth, the material offers strategies to improve professional capacity and personal well-being while maintaining a legal career.
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Speaker, Coach, and Attorney
Sammy Catone is a speaker, coach, and former litigator who spent eight years practicing law in New York. After developing life-threatening health conditions rooted in chronic burnout, she immersed herself in the neuroscience of stress, subconscious programming, and nervous system regulation. Her complete health recovery and subsequent personal and professional transformation became the foundation for the framework she now teaches. Sammy works 1:1 with attorneys, speaks for legal organizations, and offers workshops to law firms.
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