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...
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 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...
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...
