by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Sep 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
I am thrilled to announce that Mindful Return now offers an official Mindful Return Maternity Leave Template, to help you be intentional, structured, and professional about your upcoming leave. Why bother presenting your employer with such a document? Don’t take it...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Jul 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
I don’t get to the movies much. (Okay, so I’ll confess to having gone to see Captain Underpants with my boys, to celebrate their cousin’s 7th birthday…but I don’t get to grown-up movies much.) But I finally made it out to the movie theater last week. My husband and...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Dec 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
For 5+ years now, my husband and I have blocked a day near the end of the year as our “Annual Planning Day.” Not only do we look forward to the tradition of spending an entire day together (kid-free daylight hours one-on-one in a coffee shop! –...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Nov 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
What’s the best way to do a maternity leave handoff? I’m so delighted today to be joined by Christina Schneider Dagand. She is mom to a wonderful baby girl, an American expat living in Paris, and, most recently, a back-to-work mama, to give us some advice on this...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Oct 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
When I joined my law firm a little over a year ago – and my boys were 2 and 4 years old – I came into the position on a 60% schedule. Prior to that, I had been working full-time (with one day of telecommuting per week) for a health care trade association. ...