Compartmentalizing Feelings…Like a Waffle (Couch Talks)
Feeling Things with Amy & Kat
Nashville Podcast Network
4.9 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Amy and Kat read two very different but deeply connected listener emails. The first comes from a new listener sharing a powerful, tender moment she had with her mom shortly before she passed away from cancer. The second email is from a mom preparing to leave her baby for a two-week work trip for the first time ever. She’s wondering how she’s going to get through it. That opens up a conversation about compartmentalizing feelings and how sometimes the only way forward is to put things in their own little spaces…like a waffle. Along the way, Amy and Kat also wander into first podcasts they ever listened to, the difference between a content creator and an influencer, random home and style tangents (including a sweater belt moment and hanging cowboy hats on the wall), and the comfort of letting conversations be a little messy and a little real.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | This reminder, even though we are answering your questions on couch talks, |
| 0:06.3 | this podcast does not serve as a replacement or a substitute for any actual mental health services. |
| 0:09.9 | One of two, please. |
| 0:13.4 | If you ever have feelings that you just want some, maybe and cat got you covered like an umbrella. |
| 0:20.5 | Ladies and fellas, we just follow in a spirit where it tells us. |
| 0:24.6 | From the real stuff to the chill stuff and the in between. |
| 0:29.6 | Sometimes the best thing you can do is just out and feel things. |
| 0:34.6 | This is Feeling Things with Amy and Kat. |
| 0:37.9 | Happy Thursday. |
| 0:38.6 | Welcome to Couch Talks, the Q&A episode to our Feeling Things podcast. |
| 0:42.9 | I'm Amy. |
| 0:43.5 | And I'm Kat. |
| 0:44.3 | And today we have an email from Lori that I'm going to start off with. |
| 0:49.0 | We kind of teased about this one the other day. |
| 0:52.9 | Remember when it came in, like right as we were finishing |
| 0:56.1 | and so i pulled it immediately to save it to go over but laurie's a new listener i didn't read at that |
| 1:01.8 | at that moment did i no you didn't you just said that it had something to do with cancer and that |
| 1:08.8 | she was yeah she just started like six episodes yeah six episodes deep uh good |
| 1:13.9 | morning i started listening to your podcast recently and i absolutely love it i'm only about six |
| 1:18.5 | episodes deep and keep thinking about the episode you did with your sister episode four about bringing |
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