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Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery

Best Friend, Terrible Advice

Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery

Slate Podcasts

Society & Culture, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Sexuality

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Danny Lavery welcomes Kate Duffy, a New York based licensed clinical social worker who has worked as a therapist and clinical supervisor in a variety of settings, including shelters, residential group homes, and outpatient clinics.  Lavery and Duffy take on two letters. First, from someone who needs their bestie to stop giving them advice. Another letter writer is wondering how to confront her brother about past childhood sibling abuse. Plus, a listener update! Slate Plus members get another episode of Big Mood, Little Mood every Friday: sign up now! Need advice? Send Danny a question here. Email: mood@slate.com Production by Phil Surkis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, Tom Sharpling here, the host of the Best Show, and if you've never heard of the

0:06.0

Best Show before, everything you need to know is right there in the title.

0:10.4

Each week we put on the Best Live podcast you're ever going to hear featuring live callers,

0:15.6

celebrity guests, music, plenty of surprises, who knows what's going to happen last month

0:21.7

alone we were joined by Conan O'Brien, Patricia Arquette, Jeff Tweety from Wilco, Nathan

0:27.8

Field, or Sinan Archives, John Oliver, the list goes on and on.

0:32.2

So what are you waiting for?

0:33.7

Join us live every Tuesday night on Twitch at 6 p.m. Pacific Time and find us the next day

0:39.3

on the Forever Dog podcast network and wherever you find podcasts.

0:48.8

Just a reminder that Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery, happens twice week.

0:52.9

Sleep plus members get an additional mini episode or Little Big Mood every Friday.

0:57.8

Sign up now to listen at slate.com slash Mood.

1:01.0

Hello and welcome back to Big Mood, Little Mood.

1:24.4

I am your host, Danny M. Lavery, and with me in the studio this week is Kate Duffy, a

1:29.2

New York licensed clinical social worker who has worked as a therapist and clinical supervisor

1:33.8

in a variety of settings including shelters, residential group homes, and outpatient clinics.

1:38.6

Kate, welcome to the show.

1:40.3

Hi Danny, so good to be back. Thanks for having me.

1:43.0

I'm so so glad to have you back and I'm excited because I feel like a big theme of this week's

1:47.9

episode is like topographies of the face. I just got a lot more stuff about skin conditions

1:55.6

and skin and like holes and the possibility of more holes. And I think that's an unusual

2:02.5

theme. Usually the themes run more along the lines of like your mother's difficult.

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