{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"30: Mental Health Dads","description":"Being a working parent looks different for every career, every family, and every parent. In today\u2019s episode, Robin Smith, licensed marriage and family therapist shares his experience as a working dad in the mental health field. He shares wise insights, including the self-inflected pressure that can occur as a parent from having heightened awareness as a mental health professional, the shifts happening due to COVID-19, what it looks like to have grace and compassion for yourself and your children, and the many elements of being self-employed. Join Tom Spiggle and Lori Mihalich-Levin in this interview for incredible insight and advice from Robin Smith.    Show Highlights:  Robin shares his working parent story and how he navigated parental leave  Robin talks about how COVID has impacted his profession and how he\u2019s used positive reinforcement to make a better environment to work at home  There\u2019s great diversity in the experiences mental health professionals have  How being a mental health professional impacts work-life balance  Being a mental health professional can increase the strive for perfectionism and the feelings of shame when it isn\u2019t met  Being self-employed can allow for flexibility but also means there are no professional supports  Why Robin wishes he would\u2019ve had working dad groups to talk with during transitioning into parenthood  Transitioning into a digital space has been a major shift and has been difficult for many therapists  How will COVID change the future of therapy  Why intentionality is more important now than ever before  Why we should start with having self-compassion as a working-parent  Robin shares books and technology that have helped him on his working-parent journey    Links:  https:\/\/www.spigglelaw.com https:\/\/www.mindfulreturn.com Contact Lori:  Lori@mindfulreturn.com Resources:  The Expectant Father And Baby Makes Three     ","author_name":"Parents At Work","author_url":"https:\/\/www.mindfulreturn.com","html":"