Dogs Who Are Always There For You and Friends Who May Not Be

Kate Speer is a New England writer, entrepreneur, and mental
health advocate. She has a popular Instagram account and Substack
newsletter where she often talks about mental illness, recovery,
and how her psychiatric service dogs Waffle and Tugboat have
helped along her mental health journey. Kate’s loyal readers have
also heard a lot about her friend Maura, how they met in an
in-patient facility and became very close, and how Maura died due
to her depression. But as we learn in this episode, you may not
know Maura as well as you, or Kate, may have initially thought.
Kate's story is rich, and a conversation with her covers a lot of
ground. We discuss everything from Kate's journey starting in
elementary school to going through college, hospitalizations,
misdiagnoses, exposure therapy, the joy of dogs, and, of course,
Maura.


Learn more about Kate by visiting her website, www.KateSpeer.com.
Subscribe to her Substack, Probably Anxious, at
www.katespeer.substack.com. Follow Kate on Instagram @kate_speer.


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