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Music Hello and welcome back to Big Mood, Little Mood.

I am your host, Daniel M. Lavery.

And with me in the studio this week is a return guest, or rather a guest from the former iteration of this show back when it was Dear Prudence.

Kate Duffy is back in the studio, a 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.

Kate, welcome back. How are you? Hi, Danny. I'm doing pretty well. How are you? I am thrilled to see you again. I'm especially thrilled because I remembered this time,

last time I had you on the show, admittedly, that was when the show was Dear Prudence and we

answered more questions per episode. But I also was thinking like, okay, social worker, I should get,

you know, all the questions that I think require like like, a social worker's eye. So you and I

had one of the most sort of severe hours that I can remember. Like, there was binding. Oh,

there was neighbors, like, potentially abusing their kids. It was, it was heavy. It was bleak. Yeah, it was, it was pretty,

it was pretty rough there for a minute. I think we, we like ended up in a good place, but I do

remember us both feeling like we had just run 10 marathons and then, like a stranger had peed on us

in the street or something, Like something terrible that just happened.

I mean, not to out myself as a piss freak, but definitely one of those things sounds way more fun to me than the other.

But thank you for outing me as a piss freak.

That, you know, why not get started that way?

We're already doing better than last time.

We also are doing better than last time because,

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