by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Sep 23, 2023 | Working Mom
Early this past summer, I went to see “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” in the movie theater. One of the story’s sub-plots – one I’d completely forgotten about from the book – shook me to my core as a parent and as a daughter. A few weeks later, after the...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Sep 16, 2023 | Working Dad, Working Mom
As someone trained to be a risk-averse lawyer, entrepreneurship wasn’t originally in my life plans. Yet here we are, 9 years into Mindful Return and 2 years into running my own law firm, and I feel like I’ve finally fully embraced the entrepreneur title. For me, this...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Sep 9, 2023 | Working Dad, Working Mom
If you’ve been a working parent for longer than five minutes, my guess is that at some point, you’ve experienced Murphy’s law in spades. It doesn’t take long on this parenthood journey to experience the inevitable collision of priorities. Particularly when both...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Sep 2, 2023 | Working Mom
Our family’s August adventures took us to some amazing places in the American West, including Yosemite National Park and its famed Bridal Veil Falls. This trip with my husband, Jason, and our two boys (ages 10 and 12) was inspired by the fourth grade pass called...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Aug 5, 2023 | Mindfulness, Working Dad, Working Mom
Does the back-to-school season ever feel chaotic to you? Or perhaps this is your first time going through it, and emotions are high? If you’re looking for ways to make this start to the school year a bit more calm, you’re in the right place reading this blog post. ...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Jul 29, 2023 | Mindfulness, Working Dad, Working Mom
Nostalgia. It’s an interesting concept, isn’t it? A longing, a memory. An embodied knowing of something from the past. Is it technically a feeling? Yes, I think so. And it’s one I have had conflicted feelings about feeling. (So meta, I know.) Growing up in my...