by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Dec 19, 2020 | Leadership, Maternity Leave, Paternity Leave
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the single most important factor in whether an employee feels support during parental leave is their manager. “Someone’s manager is THE single most important factor?!”, you ask, skeptically? Yes, hands down. But what...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Apr 4, 2020 | Maternity Leave
The experience in my life that feels most similar to this COVID-19 crisis is, without a doubt, having an infant at home. Yes, there was certainly more joy involved than during this pandemic. But there were similar amounts of existential fear. Discombobulation. ...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Jan 18, 2020 | Maternity Leave
Should a new mom or dad shorten parental leave for a special opportunity that comes up at work? This excellent question came up last week in the Mindful Return course. It’s a common question, so I wanted to answer it publicly here on the blog. Here was this new...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Sep 21, 2019 | Maternity Leave
What is it REALLY like to be back at work the first week after your parental leave? My next door neighbor, Denise Myler, just went back to work after her third maternity leave and agreed to write about the experience while she was in it. This is the raw, unedited...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | May 4, 2019 | Leadership, Maternity Leave
A new working mama recently wrote to Mindful Return with the following question:Q: I’m going to lobby my representative in a few weeks to discuss the importance of maternal health and paid parental leave. He is a conservative libertarian who doesn’t support...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Apr 20, 2019 | Maternity Leave
“Talking about trauma can itself be triggering,” began Sheryl Aaron, LICSW, at a presentation she gave last week entitled “Mitigating Birth Trauma: How You Can Help Prevent Postpartum PTSD.” So we’ll start there. By first acknowledging that even talking (and writing)...
