The Wellness Docket

Host Tim Culbert welcomes Dean Michael Marin, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of New Brunswick, for an insightful conversation about anxiety, mental health, and wellness in the legal profession. Michael shares his personal “blueberries and bar exam” story, which illustrates how anxiety shaped much of his academic and professional life before he finally sought help. For years, he belie...

In this powerful and deeply personal episode, Tim travels to Shediac, New Brunswick to visit the Courage Centre and meet the incredible team behind Justice Facility Dogs New Brunswick. Joined by CEO Kristal LeBlanc and Winston, a highly trained justice facility dog, Tim explores how these remarkable dogs support vulnerable victims and witnesses navigating the criminal justice system. From RCMP int...

Tim welcomes Dan Lukasik, former trial lawyer, law professor, and Judicial Wellness Coordinator for New York State, for a powerful and deeply personal conversation about mental health in the legal profession.  With over 30 years of experience as a trial lawyer and decades of advocacy in mental health, Dan brings a unique perspective shaped by both professional insight and lived experience. After b...

Tim welcomes Moira Cook, a former estate litigation lawyer turned registered psychotherapist, for an insightful conversation about mental health in the legal profession. After practicing law in Toronto for nearly a decade, Moira experienced a personal crisis that led to anxiety, burnout, and ultimately a major career shift. Today she works primarily with lawyers, helping them navigate stress, burn...

In this special episode of The Wellness Docket , host Tim Culbert is joined by his wife, Cheyanne Culbert, a nurse and the owner of Beacon Clinical Group, a nurse consulting and education company in Woodstock, New Brunswick. Together, Tim and Cheyanne look back on the first stretch of the podcast and share the episodes and moments that hit them hardest, from candid conversations about trauma, grie...

Tim is joined by Erin Cowling, founder of Flex Legal Network, for an honest conversation about burnout, boundaries, and rethinking what success in the legal profession really looks like. Erin shares her journey from Bay Street litigation to a personal breaking point that forced her to confront anxiety and depression, and ultimately step away from traditional practice. What followed wasn’t a planne...

In this episode, Tim sits down with Dylan Gibbs to explore the mental health challenges that shaped his path and led him to leave practice entirely and create Inn Laws, a national community for lawyers who want to practice with more intention and humanity. Dylan speaks candidly about anxiety, burnout and the pressure to perform in environments that reward perfectionism and silence struggle, includ...

Tim Culbert has a candid and deep conversation with Matt Hiltz, a New Brunswick labour lawyer and advocate for mental health in the legal profession. Matt opens up about his personal journey of confronting childhood trauma and how that experience reshaped his outlook on life, leadership, and law. What began as a difficult reckoning turned into a path toward self-awareness, therapy, and a commitmen...

In this episode, Tim talks with Karen Dunn-Skinner and David Skinner, co-founders of Gimbal LLP, about how lawyers can build more balanced, profitable, and fulfilling practices. After two decades in law, they saw firsthand how burnout and inefficiency drain the profession — and created The Power Zone Playbook: The Lawyer’s Path to Peak Performance to help lawyers reclaim time and joy in their work...

Host Tim Culbert welcomes guest Jason Ward, owner of Wards Lawyers PC and mental health advocate on his website Mentally Speaking, to the show for a candid conversation about stress, mental health, and addiction. Jason shares his journey through the legal profession until burnout and a descent into addiction at age forty-seven to cope with the stresses of the job. He is now a speaker devoted to de...

Host Tim Culbert welcomes guest Erin Durant, founder of Durant Barristers, to the show to talk about her book “It Burned Me All Down ” and the mental health crisis it describes. Erin completely burned out in January 2021 and faced a long road back through anxiety and depression. She wrote the book partly to work through her own feelings about her mental health and partly to be public about an expe...

Host Tim Culbert welcomes guest Lindsey Mazza to the podcast to talk about leadership, advocacy, and the need for community. Lindsey, an Ontario-based lawyer who is now a disability and inclusive leadership expert, was born with Holt-Oram Syndrome and, after losing her father, has dedicated herself to self-advocacy, public speaking, and raising awareness about the need for workplace inclusion. She...

Host Tim Culbert welcomes viewers to the inaugural episode of The Wellness Docket podcast. His guest is Maneesha Gupta, the Founder of Council Pro and Mindful Lawyer Canada, and the recipient of Osgoode Hall Law School’s Dean’s Gold Key Award as “one to watch” for exceptional leadership and dedication to promoting mental health and equity. Maneesha shares how her career journey into law unfolded a...

Welcome to The Wellness Docket. Purvis Culbert Law lawyer and mental health advocate Tim Culbert hosts this podcast where lawyers can step away from their desks and daily stress to focus on well-being. The Wellness Docket explores why legal professionals do the work they do and what keeps them grounded and connected in their profession. Through interviews and conversations with lawyers, judges, th...