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...
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...
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:...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Feb 6, 2021 | Leadership, Working Dad, Working Mom
Did you know that our brains are more plastic in the year after our babies are born, than any other time in our adult lives? I’m often on a soapbox about how parenthood grows our leadership muscles. And I’m both reassured and excited that there is neuroscience...
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...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Dec 12, 2020 | Time Management, Working Dad, Working Mom
My husband, Jason Levin, and I truly love our annual planning days. We dream about them in advance, gleefully arrange childcare, map out where we’re going to meet, and then relish the event itself. I’ve written about them here before and shared our agendas,...
