The Inconvenient Truth About Friendship, the 90-Second Emotion Rule & More
Feeling Things with Amy & Kat
Nashville Podcast Network
4.7 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Amy and Kat kick off the episode with a feeling that might hit way too close to home: “I think I might need to cry.” Speaking of crying, science says that if you cry easily it might mean your brain is working better than you think. They break down findings on why people who tear up easily have faster processing, and how “emotion labeling” can calm your brain in just 90 seconds.
They also talk about the inconvenient nature of friendships and relationships (including an airport pickup that went sideways with Amy’s boyfriend), what truly makes a bond healthy, and why mutual investment matters more than proximity or shared experiences.
And with Christmas coming up, they close out with a reminder: there are things you absolutely don’t owe your family during the holidays.
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Kat Van Buren // threecordstherapy.com // @KatVanburen
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.5 | One, two, please. |
| 0:09.0 | If you ever have feelings that you just want some, |
| 0:12.8 | Amy and Kat got you covered like an umbrella. |
| 0:16.2 | Ladies and fellas, |
| 0:17.7 | we just follow in the spirit where it tells us. |
| 0:20.5 | From the real stuff to the chill stuff and the in between. |
| 0:25.6 | Sometimes the best thing you can do is just out and feel things. |
| 0:31.3 | This is Feeling Things with Amy and Kat. |
| 0:33.9 | Happy Tuesday. |
| 0:34.5 | Welcome to Feeling Things. |
| 0:35.5 | I'm Amy. |
| 0:36.1 | And I'm Kat. |
| 0:36.9 | And I got the feeling of the day, |
| 0:38.7 | which I don't know that it for sure is just like a feeling feeling, but I just feel like I need |
| 0:43.1 | to cry. You don't look like you feel like you need to cry. You know how crying releases |
| 0:50.3 | feel good chemicals, whatever that is. Like I think I just need a good release. And I don't really know how I'm going to achieve that because I have so much to do today. So it's like, it'll come when it needs to come, but do I need to watch something later? But what I'm very much into right now is all the Christmas feel-good movies and they don't make me want to cry. Not even a happy tear? No. Not a happy tear. You don't ever shed a tear at the end of a Hallmark movie when you're like, they're together and they're happy. No. Have you? I think so. Okay. I cry really easily. I mean, Netflix is loading up all kinds of old movies left and right. You know, we put together our |
| 1:28.3 | little Christmas movie list, which I think has been helpful for a lot of people. It's on our Feeling |
| 1:34.3 | Things podcast, Instagram. That's the handle of Feeling Things podcast. And it's got Hallmark |
| 1:40.0 | Schedule, Netflix schedule, Disney, who like the schedule of new releases for 2025. But Netflix, |
| 1:47.2 | they have been loading up, like, Christmas movies from who knows where. I don't even know |
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