Theresa Tighe

Theresa Tighe

Theresa M. Tighe attended her freshman year of college at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in 1967-68 and never forgot the kindness and peace she found there. She found her calling at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She spent nearly 30 years as a reporter and feature writer at the St. Louis Post Dispatch. She is retired and lives in St. Louis surrounded by family and the friends of a lifetime. She is now a Providence Associate.

Mother Theodore offers support for living with mental illness

Some mornings Mother Theodore keeps me from my impulses by saying, “The way is not yet clear, grope along slowly. Be patient. Be trustful.”
Sometimes when I am overwhelmed, I read, “We are not called upon to do all the good possible, but only that which we can do.”
Some mornings, when I am struggling and could use a hug, I open to this, “No one will ever love you as your old Mother Theodore does.”

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