by Lori Mihalich-Levin | May 8, 2021 | Mindfulness, Time Management, Working Mom
What does a for-real, warts-and-all, workday look like for me? I get the question all the time: how do you actually do it? Run a business, practice law, and be mama to two active boys. In honor of Mother’s Day 2021 (and in honor of this being my 300th Mindful...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | May 1, 2021 | Working Dad, Working Mom
“Lately, I feel like I’m to blame for a lot of things,” I’m hearing from parents. “I can’t figure out why it’s taking me a whole week (or longer) to do a task that is, in theory, only supposed to take me 10 minutes. I can’t seem to bill the number of hours I...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Apr 24, 2021 | Working Dad, Working Mom
“My employer just said no to a post-COVID request to continue to work from home,” lamented the mom of a toddler and an infant. “What should I do?” This mama of two raised this issue last Friday in the weekly room I host on Clubhouse, and she is not alone in her...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Apr 10, 2021 | Maternity Leave, Paternity Leave, Working Dad, Working Mom
With a world of vaccines-for-all-adults on the horizon (I got my J&J shot on Thursday!!!), conversations around the so-called return to work are mounting at a fever pitch. I’ve gotten a bunch of questions on this topic this week alone. “Do you have an opinion on...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Mar 27, 2021 | Working Dad, Working Mom
It strikes me as ironic that in this heavy and incredibly hard year of COVID, people have, on average, taken fewer vacation days than in the past. According to this article, workers left “almost all of their vacation days on the table” in 2020. This, coming from a...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Mar 20, 2021 | Maternity Leave, Paternity Leave, Working Dad, Working Mom
“Is it normal to just feel dead inside about your work?” a mama recently asked me a few weeks after her return to work from maternity leave. She continued, “like whatever you are doing in the office isn’t important and feel like it used to feel? I have this awful...
