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3 Tools to Free the Anxious Perfectionist

3 Tools to Free the Anxious Perfectionist

by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Mar 6, 2021 | Mindfulness, Working Dad, Working Mom

Does anyone who identifies as a perfectionist read this blog?  Perhaps some overachiever types who currently feel like you’re failing at everything?  I thought so.  (Raising hand over here.) Today, I’m excited to welcome to the blog someone who has one or two (or...
Re-Set the Chess Board and Play Again: Resilience When You Have No Choice

Re-Set the Chess Board and Play Again: Resilience When You Have No Choice

by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Feb 20, 2021 | Mindfulness, Working Dad, Working Mom

I keep hearing about how much strength and resilience this pandemic year is providing us.  Now I don’t, as a general self-imposed rule, swear on this blog.  But damn it, I am tired of  working my resilience muscles. I get it, of course. How the pandemic is putting so...
How to Have a Guilt-Free COVID Valentine’s Day

How to Have a Guilt-Free COVID Valentine’s Day

by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Feb 13, 2021 | Mindfulness, Working Dad, Working Mom

This Valentine’s Day, let’s ditch the guilt. There’s so much pressure on working parents during COVID to be everything at home and everything at work, that we don’t need more stress right now. Here’s my Valentine’s Day love poem to all working parents:...
How to Start Fresh in the New Year? It’s Complicated.

How to Start Fresh in the New Year? It’s Complicated.

by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Jan 2, 2021 | Mindfulness, Working Dad, Working Mom

Happy New Year, my dear readers.  {Deep sigh.}  I, like many of you, am turning the 2020 calendar page with much relief to be moving on.  A sticker on the back of a holiday card I received recently had a drawing of a reindeer wearing a face mask, with the caption “Oh...
Childcare and School Fits and Starts

Childcare and School Fits and Starts

by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Oct 31, 2020 | Childcare, Mindfulness

Frustrated by childcare fits and starts these days?  We all are!  Read on for some thoughts on both the logistics and how to re-orient our mental states. Question from a Working Mama:  Do you have any advice for working parents who are juggling intermittent closures...
Proof That Stopping Speeds Us Up: The 1,000 Piece Harry Potter Puzzle

Proof That Stopping Speeds Us Up: The 1,000 Piece Harry Potter Puzzle

by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Oct 10, 2020 | Mindfulness

If someone suggested stopping your work as a way to make it go faster, what would you think?  It’s counter-intuitive, right?  How could stopping something possibly help the doing of it go faster? The “I don’t have time to stop,” refrain is blaring in working parent...
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