Claire E. Parsons is a practicing lawyer, certified meditation, mindfulness, and compassion teacher, mom, and prolific writer. Claire started this blog to share her experience with mindfulness in a practical (and sometimes humorous) voice to help other lawyers and professionals. Her goal is to make mindfulness and meditation enjoyable, accessible, and practical for bus lawyers and professionals. You can learn more about each aspect of her background below.
Law Practice
Claire is an attorney in the Cincinnati area. She has practices in the areas of civil litigation, employment law, school law, and municipal law. Claire is an active leader in her community and in the legal profession. Claire currently serves on the wellness committees for her law firm and state and local bar associations. She is also guides meditation for fellow lawyers for the Mindfulness in Law Society’s Virtual Sits and the founder of the MILS Greater Cincinnati Chapter.
Writing and Speaking
Claire is a frequent writer and speaker on a wide range of topics. She has published and spoken about legal topics, as well as mindfulness and wellness for lawyers and professionals. Claire is a frequent CLE presenter and has at least three CLE seminars for credit available to watch on-demand on Lawline. She writes regularly on LinkedIn and co-authored a bestselling book in 2020 with 19 other women lawyers.
In 2022, Claire published her first book, How to Be a Badass Lawyer: The Unexpected and Simple Guide to Less Stress and Greater Personal Development Through Mindfulness and Compassion. She is also the author of the children’s book, Mommy Needs a Minute. More recently, Claire served as the general editor for a legal treatise to published in 2024 by LexisNexis. And she frequently contributes to the well-read blog, The Tattooed Buddha and writes about mindfulness in the workplace under the name The Bodhisattva of Power Suits.
Journey to Mindfulness
Meditation helped Claire find success and balance in law practice. Early on, though, she struggled with overthinking, anxiety, and depression. Claire began meditating after recovering from a difficult first pregnancy with her oldest daughter, Sophie. Though she started with 1-minute sessions, mindfulness practice changed her life. Meditation even helped her find courage to network, develop business, and grow her law practice. Over the next several years, she continued to study meditation and attend retreats.
Mindfulness Training and Experience
Claire has been meditating for a decade and has more than 1000 hours of training in mindfulness, yoga, compassion, and mental health. In 2020, Claire completed the meditation teacher certification program with The Mindfulness Center founded by Deborah Norris, Ph.D., to refine her understanding of the science of mindfulness and its practical applications. She then completed the 500-hour yoga teacher training offered by My Vinyasa Practice. In 2022, Claire completed the Compassion Educator Certificate Program offered by the Compassion Education Alliance.
More recently, she obtained a certification in pranayama to facilitate breathwork instruction. Though Claire is not a licensed mental health provider or trauma healer, she is trained in trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness, neurodiversity-informed mindfulness, mindfulness for managing ADHD, and somatic healing. Claire is also certified as a Mental Health Ally by SHRM and a Mental Health First Aider from Mental Health First Aid USA. She is currently completing Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program.
To learn more, follow or connect with Claire on LinkedIn, follow her or check out her guided meditations on Insight Timer, or contact her at claire@claireeparsons.com.