by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Apr 30, 2022 | self-care, Working Dad, Working Mom
Ah, the words “alone time” make me sigh with joy and pleasure. Otherwise sometimes referred to as “me time,” this beautiful concept didn’t even have a name in by vocabulary when I was single. Before having children, I don’t think I ever felt the need to label a...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Apr 23, 2022 | Maternity Leave, Working Mom
Today, I introduce to you the South Africa Chapter of Mindful Return. If you had asked me 10 years ago, if I’d be a working mom of two boys and the CEO of a company with a global reach, I probably would have laughed at you. “Risk averse law firm partner laboring away...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Apr 2, 2022 | Leadership, Working Dad, Working Mom
Last week, I attended my first in-person, overnight work conference in over 2 years. And as I said at the beginning of my talk on the last day, I probably interacted with more real live adult human beings during the 48 hour period I was there than I have during the...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Mar 26, 2022 | Time Management, Working Dad, Working Mom
How are your boundaries between work and life doing these days? Did they vanish like the morning mist when Covid struck? Or perhaps when your baby arrived on the scene? This topic certainly isn’t new to the Mindful Return blog (see A Working Parent’s...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Mar 19, 2022 | Leadership, Working Dad, Working Mom
When was the last time you embarked on a new learning or professional development (PD) project? When was the last time you signed up for and took a class? In the chaotic past two years of pandemic parenting, this topic hasn’t been at the top of most working...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Mar 12, 2022 | Mindfulness, Working Dad, Working Mom
Two weeks ago, during my children’s winter break, I lost my cell phone on a ski slope. Now, at the outset, I want to recognize the immense privilege packed into that sentence. I own an iPhone with a fancy camera on it. (Heck, I think there are actually 3 cameras.) ...
