by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Sep 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
In May 2017, a few weeks after my book, Back to Work After Baby: How to Plan and Navigate a Mindful Return from Maternity Leave, came out, I had the pleasure of giving a talk at a wonderful book store in Washington, DC, called Politics & Prose. Fast-forward about...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Oct 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
My friend Alexandra Hughes, a wise coach, tells mamas: you can do it all…just not right now! As a goal-oriented, striving-to-be-less impatient, working mama, the last thing I wanted to hear when I went back to work after maternity leave was that somehow I couldn’t do...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Sep 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
After I went out on maternity leave and returned to work, there were a few things I wish I’d had the opportunity to say to my employer. Here’s the letter I would have written them: A New Mama’s Letter to Her Employer Dear Employer, I’m about to come...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Sep 3, 2014 | Childcare
Transitioning your baby to childcare is one of the more nerve-wracking events in the life of a new working mama. Thoughtful planning about this transition – and about all the logistics of how you’ll go back to work after maternity leave – can really...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Aug 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
When I set out to find a way to help mamas in this period of transition, growing into a new life with baby while also returning to work, I debated what to call this project. What was I hoping new mamas would learn? How to have a “successful return”? A “peaceful...
