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    <title>Saint Dymphna’s Playbook - Episodes Tagged with “Abuse”</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2021 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
    <description>A podcast about finding mental well-being as a Catholic with the help of community and the saints. Hosted by Tommy Tighe, a marriage and  family therapist, husband, and father. In each episode Tommy addresses different mental health issues, introduces listeners to a saint who is relevant to mental health and wellness, and responds to questions from Twitter followers.
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    <itunes:subtitle>Here to fill the void in Catholic conversations about mental health.</itunes:subtitle>
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    <itunes:summary>A podcast about finding mental well-being as a Catholic with the help of community and the saints. Hosted by Tommy Tighe, a marriage and  family therapist, husband, and father. In each episode Tommy addresses different mental health issues, introduces listeners to a saint who is relevant to mental health and wellness, and responds to questions from Twitter followers.
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  <title>93: Do I Use My Mental Health As a Crutch? </title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Tommy talks about involuntary psychiatric hospitalizations, introduces listeners to Saint Sharbel Makhlouf, and answers listener questions about how to respond to someone who says we use our mental health symptoms as a crutch, if we should pray for our abusers who have died, and how to interact with an adult child who identifies as transgender. </itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>90: I Feel Like A Fraud! </title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2021 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Tommy talks about the therapeutic approach known as EMDR, introduces listeners to Blessed Jutta of Thuringia, and answers listener questions about how faith and feelings go together, how to navigate being asked to help at the parish when we don't feel good enough, and what forgiveness means in the context of healing after abuse.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>19:42</itunes:duration>
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  <title>49: Kim Kardashian and Saint Vincent de Paul</title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2020 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Tommy talks about Kim Kardashian's recent comments about mental illness, discusses a study on breathing techniques from Yale, shares a story about Saint Vincent de Paul,  and answers listener questions about orthorexia, navigating a relationship while experiencing Harm OCD, and how to heal after experiencing abuse from a helping professional.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>18:49</itunes:duration>
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  <title>48: Just Do Your Dishes! </title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2020 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Tommy talks about how making your bed won't fix your mental illness and discusses how to cope with dissociation, introduces listeners to Blessed Laura Vicuña,  and answers listener questions about to help a loved one be open to mental health treatment, what a manic episode looks like, and how to navigate a friend sharing news about a history of abuse. </itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>19:44</itunes:duration>
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