Judge Lynn Toler has spent her career imparting life wisdom and grounded advice. She served as the longest-reigning arbitrator in the longest-running courtroom show, “Divorce Court,” for 14 consecutive seasons and co-hosted three seasons of “Marriage Boot Camp,” on which she mentored couples after watching them for 10-hour days and always made a point to explain—in a way that the recipients of the advice were sure to understand—what it is that they were doing that resulted in communication breakdowns.
Toler has also long been vocal about her own mental health battles, discussing them openly and telling audiences that they were nothing to be ashamed of, that they were something to be aware of and worked through. Years before “mental health awareness” entered the cultural lexicon, Toler discussed mental illnesses and said she saw a psychiatrist because she wanted to know about her problems before anyone else did.
