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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...
Telling Your Employer You Are Pregnant – During COVID

Telling Your Employer You Are Pregnant – During COVID

by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Feb 27, 2021 | Maternity Leave, Pregnant, Working Mom

I’ve gotten some questions lately about how and when to tell your employer you are pregnant – particularly during this COVID era of working from home.  The most obvious difference, for many new pregnant moms, is of course that their colleagues don’t see them in person...
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:...
Our Brains on Parenthood

Our Brains on Parenthood

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...
To Buy or Not to Buy? What’s a New Mama Between Sizes to Do about Clothes?

To Buy or Not to Buy? What’s a New Mama Between Sizes to Do about Clothes?

by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Jan 23, 2021 | Working Mom

Confused about your new mama wardrobe and what clothes to wear, especially as you get ready to head back to work?  I’m delighted to be joined today by Lani Inlander, personal stylist at Real Life Style, to help you answer that tricky question: to buy or not to buy? ...
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