by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Jan 8, 2022 | Working Dad, Working Mom
Today I’m writing to share an important update: Mindful Return’s programs for new parents are now available in Spanish! Read on to find out how this came to be, and to meet our new course coaches. Roberta Marcos is our incredible working mama coach for the new mom...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Dec 4, 2021 | Leadership, Working Dad
In the Mindful Return course for new moms, we spend a week talking about how parental leave – both maternity and paternity leave – can serve as a leadership opportunity for those who have the experience of going through it. There are so many “rooms where it happens”...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Nov 27, 2021 | Working Dad, Working Mom
Mindful Return 201, the next-level course for all overwhelmed working parents, is finally here. I launched Mindful Return as a passion project in the summer of 2014, creating what I wished had existed for myself as a new working mom. Our first cohort of moms...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Nov 20, 2021 | Working Dad, Working Mom
This week in the Mindful Return course, a mama raised an excellent question about how to actually make a reduced-hour or part-time schedule work. Here was her question: When I return to work after maternity leave, I’ll be working reduced hours at the beginning. I’d...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Nov 13, 2021 | Working Dad, Working Mom
I’ll admit, I was that kid who screamed in terror at her fear of shots and needles. Yes, I made a huge scene at the pediatrician’s office around the age of 12 or 13. I remember having a toddler-type temper tantrum in a teenager’s body in the room where I was being...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Oct 23, 2021 | Working Dad, Working Mom
Going on my first work-related trip since COVID started has me thinking about work travel this week. I’ve had a complicated – but likely completely normal – relationship with work travel over the past decade since I became a working mom. My first trip...
