July 17, 2025 • 25 mins
Before diving into the main listener question, Amy and Kat share a sky journal poem from a listener and read a funny email complaint about how Amy pronounces the word “poem.” Then, they turn to this week’s Couch Talks email: a heartfelt message from a listener grieving the loss of her dog of 15 years. She’s looking for support with nighttime spirals and hoping to find a little more peace in the pain.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
All right, break it down.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
If you ever have feelings that you just won'ts home,
maybe a cat gotcha Covin locking a brother.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Ladies and folks, do you just follow.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
An the spirit where it's all.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
The phone over real stuff to the chill stuff and
the m but Swayne, sometimes the best thing you can
do it just stop you feel things. This is Feeling Things.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
With Amy and Kat.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Happy Thursday, Welcome to Couch Talks, our Q and a
episode to the Feeling Things podcast. I'm Amy and I'm Kat.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
And before we get started, quick disclaimer that although we
are answering your questions, this does not serve as a
replacement or substitute for any actual mental health services.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Nope, we're just reading your emails and then giving some
advice take it or leave it.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Given some feedback. Don't even call it advice anymore.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Oh yeah, no, not even just can't be doing that.
We're saying words, take them or leave them here home
or don't. Before we get into the Couch Talk's email,
we do have two other emails that Kat and I
are going to get into. She's going to read the
first one, which is about well, what I'm going to
be doing because we got a poem, and.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
When Cat reads her email that we should say trigger warning.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
We got a point. I really I don't know why.
I don't know how to say it. I'm trying to
be normal. I don't know how to say normal. Poem.
So you say it, poem, poem.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Shake a palm, shake your shoulders. Stop saying poem and
just shake your body. Now, say like, what did you
have for breakfast this morning?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
A bar?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
What's your favorite color?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Don't have one? Where were you born Austin?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
What's your mental name?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Elizabeth?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Say poem, poem?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I did it.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I'm a hypnotist.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Gosh, okay, I did Yes, that's good.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Oh my god, I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Okay, okay, So you're probably wondering why did we just
do that. Well, I'm about to tell you because I'm
gonna read. This might be my favorite email I've ever received.
And when I saw I said, I can't wait to
read this to Amy and the rest of everybody else.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I asked for permission.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
She said that we could read it and should be
so excited. And she means all of this with love,
And that's I think the best part of this email.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yes, and I saw her reply because I've also already
read the email, and I saw your interaction with her,
and she was like, by the way, I love Amy.
It just she can't handle the way it sounds in
her ears, so she has to like take her headphones.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
And this is how you give feedback in a kind way.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, and so I'm going to work on it. So
every time I need to say the word, well, they
don't even ca Thatt's gonna hypnotize me and then I'll
say it.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
So here's the email, says Hi, I am a longtime
listener of Bobby Bones in every single podcast that Amy
has ever been a part of. I am a huge
fan in one million different ways. One thing has been
getting under my skin a little bit. And it's so
trivial and so silly. But I'm wondering if anybody else
is hearing this, and if maybe I'm incorrect with the
(03:07):
pronunciation of the word, or if this is something that
can be worked on. The word is poem Again. I
know that this is so silly, and it's not like
it makes a huge difference. It doesn't change how amazing
the content of the show is. But the more and
more you all kept talking about the poems, the more
(03:28):
Amy is saying the word, and I honestly had to
turn the episode off early today because I couldn't take
it anymore. She's referring to last week's Couch Talks episode
as well. Yeah, or no, it was the last week
full Feeling Things episode where we did skyjournaling and we
read our poems.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, anytime we talk about it, I guess yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Again, I am from the Midwest, so maybe it's because
the way I have always heard it said. But I
really feel like she's emphasizing a part of the word
that's almost physically hurting my ears. That seems very but
I can't explain it in any other way. Something about
the way that she's saying the word is making it
very very hard to listen to episodes that you discuss
(04:08):
poems in it all, which also makes me think, like,
how often are we talking about it?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I mean there's multiple and then I know we even
talked about them on the Bobby Bone Show, so she's
a listener of that.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
It could be that, she said, just wondering if anybody
else is noticing this, or if it's something I need
to work on within myself. Thank you so much and
please continue to make us laugh and cry and feel
so many things.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Heather, and I love that last part.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Of like she's saying, let me know if this is
something about me, I'll work on that too, Like.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Oh, that's kind.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I noticed when you were saying it last week. I
didn't say anything because I feel like I've kind of
poked at you and I felt like it was getting
old and I just wanted to let it go.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
But it sounds like listeners would like for you to
nip it in the bud. I don't know why I
say it the way I do well. My feelings isn't
her by the way you're looking at me, like okay,
let me put my kid gloves on. You can talk
to me like a just stick it to me straight.
(05:11):
I don't know why I say it the.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Way that I do well.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Part of the reason I'm like like, I also say
drawer weird.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Say wash wash oh. Some people say whosh.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Well, that's a like a regional.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Draw sad Am.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I saying it right now?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Am I saying it right?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I don't know, Dar, I don't know. I just know
that that's another one that, like, at least on the
Bobby Bone Show, they'll be like you say that weird
crown drawer poem.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I say Begel's and I say Vegas instead of Vegas Vegas.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
That's like the Vegas nerve.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
No, it's a Vegas nerve. That's why I say, because
Vegas nerve is v a g U. S Las Vegas
is v E, but it's Vegas.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I also say serum. Weird say serum serum No. You
usually say serum.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
No. I don't know, yes you do. There's no way
I say sorum.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Maybe I have because I remember you said it, and
we have a friend named Michelle that says serum and
I remember you said it, and I go, oh my gosh,
you say it like Michelle, and you said it in
a in a video. And one of my friends texted
me and said, Amy says serum.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Oh, well, you know what, surum might be one of
the ones that I are interchangeable for me where I
say serum sometimes are serum, sort of like I say
pajamas and sometimes I say pajamas.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
The reason that I don't want to be too harsh
is because one time an ex boyfriend of mine told
me that I have a lisp.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
You kind of do. Is that bad. I think it's cute.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Well he said it in a mean way. He was
like making fun of me.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Then I was like, oh, I have a speech impediment,
and nobody ever told me, and I never was able
to work on it. There is something weird about the
way I talk.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Well, sometimes my SA's whistle like and I'm talking. I
get notes about that from listeners that are so annoyed
by it, and they have to turn me off, and
I'm like, I don't know, that's just how I talk.
It gets the way my teeth and my tongue is
forming a word. I don't know what to do. I
don't know how to change that. I'm not speech theory.
(07:16):
Try really not put on. I can't let my tongue
and my teeth.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I've never noticed that about you.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Oh, I have trust me over the years, lots of
notes about that one.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Well, thanks for the feedback.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Amy's gonna work on it and work on poem the
rest of the word same however you want.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
You need to work on Bigel.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I need to work on my lips.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
What is like your list? You say begel Bigel?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I also say pillow weird or pillow? What's pel pillow,
I say, pillow.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Okay, you can never get onto me about poem again.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I never talked about pillows on the podcast. Whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Well, I showed up to your house the other day
with a bagel, and you would say that I showed
up with ag Okay, people are turning us off right
now with all of our words.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Okay, the poems.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Speaking of we got a poem from our listener named Karen,
so I'm going to read her poem. Thank you, hi, ladies.
I sky journaled because I like doing homework, which this
is a previous episode homework assignment that we gave out,
and Karen is a good student. She said, this is
what I came up with. I'm on the other side
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of fifty, so thoughts of mortality randomly pop into my head,
so just keep that in mind when I read her poem.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Sounds like I'm a button that you just ris.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Wispy clouds in the sky, gently gently rolling by, You
shift so slowly. Yet I wonder why the days, the months,
the years fly by. When I look up tomorrow, you'll
be gone, but new clouds will come along, and when
I see them, I will say I'm grateful for another day.
How many more do I have left to watch the
(09:02):
clouds float and drift. I don't know my expiration date.
I don't know when I'll meet my fate. Until then,
I stay tuned to the sky to watch the wispy
clouds roll by. And then she said, thanks for keeping
us laughing and learning, Karen, which is an interesting way
to end a very are you really laughing? Somber somber poem,
(09:29):
Where's my button? Somber poem? Thank you? Which I do
find it interesting sometimes the people that think about death
a lot, because I don't ever ever, not really. Sometimes
I think about cancer and how many get it, maybe
because my parents had it, and I hope I don't,
but then I'm like, probably will. But then I'm like,
(09:49):
don't think that way. That's sort of the thought process
that I have. But I don't think about death unless
I'm boarding a plane and I'm like, might go down.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
So you do think about it, but not every day.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
No, if you told me to go outside in journal
in the sky, my thoughts aren't going to be like
wondering about my expiration date. And she even said, I mean,
I'm Karen said in the beginning over that she has
thoughts of mortality randomly, and maybe that is with her age,
Like as you get older, you start to think about
how fleeting life is. But I do love the line
(10:22):
of when new clouds come along and I see them,
I'll say I'm grateful for another day.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, So I feel like I think about death a
healthy amount. I've also always had this thought that I
might have like an early death. Just it's like a
weird thought I've had. But I also think of it
more as I get older. I also notice the age
of the people that are older than me, and that's
when I think about, like, oh, like when you're young,
you never think your parents. When I'm fifteen, my mom's
(10:49):
going to live forever. When I'm thirty five, I'm like, oh,
we all are going to die anyway.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Well, so that leads me to our email, which you're
going to read, which are Elch Talks email, which is
about death. Part of what you didn't plan. Any of
this is just sort of all time together you ready, Ready?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Hi, Amy and Kat. I'm really enjoying your new podcast.
Each episode feels like being part of a conversation with friends.
I'm writing with a question about dealing with grief. Recently,
my fifteen year old dog passed away. I'd had her
my entire adult life, and as a single person, she
truly was my best friend, my constant. There was some
(11:39):
trauma associated with the end of her life, seizures, dealing
with a fillin vet who dismissed us and told me
she didn't look ready to die, when hours later I
had to make the tough decision to let her go.
I'm having trouble turning off my brain if I'm not
doing something, and sometimes even if I am, my mind
wanders back to those final hours, seeing her struggling in
(12:01):
the pain of saying goodbye. Do you have any tips
for redirecting your attention when your mind gets caught in
loops like that. I try to recognize what's happening and
think of other things, but it's been really hard, especially
at night when I'm trying to fall asleep. Any tips
that you have would be greatly appreciated.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
And I know she wanted to remain anonymous, so we're
not saying her name, and I'm sitting here with Kara,
who is my dog that I got after my dog Josie,
who we also had to make the decision to put
her down, and I remember sitting there with my husband
at the time now my ex husband, but we went together,
and it is one of the hardest things ever. Have
(12:41):
you ever had to do it with a pet?
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Yeah, but I didn't go.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
You didn't go. Were you a kid?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
No?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Oh, I was just an adult. But it was my
childhood dog.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
So it was my Your parents went, but actually my
mom couldn't go. My little brother went because my brother
was like, I'm not letting his name was Champ, Like
I don't want him to die alone.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
So my little brother went.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Yeah, it is a very difficult situation and one that, yeah,
I think is very normal that it's looping in your mind.
I will say, hearing that your dog was fifteen, that
is a long life for a dog. I don't know.
The breed must have been a smaller dog, because I
think Chihuahua's or the smaller the dog, the longer they live.
(13:24):
Really Okay, Shannon says here it's generally true that smaller
dog breeds tend to live longer than larger ones, for example,
a Chihuahua or a Yorkshire Terrier. Do they say that right?
Yorkshire Yorkshire York?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I don't know, I'm there a.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Button for that one. You're sure might live fifteen to
seventeen years, while a great Dane may only live seven
to ten. And I think ten is generous.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Like that is so sad. A seven year old is
like a puppy to me.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Well, but even humans, like really tall tall humans, like
the ones that are like seven feet tall, it's like
your heart is having to work extra hard because it's pumping.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
They die taller people die sooner.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I'm talking really tall, like a great day. It's like
a horse. I was just using an example, like like
a giant human, like some of the really tall ones.
I do think that they have a shorter life expectancy.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Okay, but that is a bonus for short guys.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yes, I guess short kings for short kings, yes, well,
And that's not to say anybody who's tall. Like when
I say tall, I'm talking about like irregularly tall, not
just a basketball not saying if your boyfriend's or your
husband's six seven. I don't know that that's an issue.
But you know some people are seven to five. Yeah, Like,
I think that you have to monitor that. The more
(14:43):
you know this is not a medical podcast. Back to
the email and what you're going through, even though we're
making light of it, because we're also your friends, just
sitting around some microphones and hopefully this episode has given
you a little laughter in your grief and those two
things can be okay and you're able to experience life.
(15:04):
I do know at night time that can be a
really difficult time when you're processing. I would encourage you
to surrender the whole situation with the vet, you know,
and being an experience or not being your normal vet
or whatever should a could a wood a situation because
your dog was older and lived a good life and
ultimately this likely was going to have to happen at
(15:25):
some point. So if you can just set aside that
part and not wonder what could have happened if the
VET was working? And what's been helpful for me in
different times of grief, especially when it's your pet. I
don't know if like grieving a human is the same thing,
but with my dog Josie, like honoring her in different
(15:47):
ways or celebrating her, that was really special, reflecting having
pictures of her. I have a sketched photo that I
had done like a pencil artist, like a charcoal. Yeah,
it's like this really cool detailed photo of her. And
I haven't hung it up yet in this house but
in our East Nashville house where she was. I need
to find the right place to put it in my
(16:08):
new house. But when she died, we had it hung
up in a prominent spot and I loved having her
there with us. Like even after we got Kara, we
got a new dog, it was like, well, there's Josie.
It didn't match because they're like, well, that's your dog, Kara,
who's that Rottweiler up there like in this big, beautiful frame,
And I'm like, oh, let me tell you, that's Josie.
(16:30):
And she was my bff. Like she was with me
through all the deployments that my husband at the time had.
She was my protector. I was very, very bonded with her,
more so than Kara. But remember Kara, I told you
to close your ears, like, I don't know that I'll
ever have a relationship like I have with that dog,
Like she was everything. So how can you honor your
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dog in that way and set up some sort of
a like a shrine.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
You could do a shrine if you want.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yeah, but something's where.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
It's not about forgetting it. So, yeah, remembering and that's
a good healthy thing.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yeah, did your dog have a birthday? Can you still
celebrate that? Light a candle? Can you write some letters?
Can you journal through it?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Again?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Journal? It's not for everybody. We know that from cat.
But frame your favorite photo or have a piece of
artwork done. Oh, this is what I had done. It
was commissioned. That's how you say it. Oh, I commissioned
someone to sketch her. And so can you do that
for yourself as like a gift because that was something
that was really special and then you can have that
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and then when you're going to bed at night, are there.
Everybody's different, But meditations are so helpful for me to
calm my mind, my looping mind. That may not work
for you, but that would be a piece of advice
that I have for you to try, so that you
can calm your mind or talk about how you miss
your dog. Then I just had a really weird thought
of like I don't know what she did with her dogs,
(17:55):
like ashes? Oh, like have some people stuff their dogs? Yeah,
you don't have to stuff your dog and have it there,
but if you cremated it. I had Josie's ashes for
a while. She died in Nashville, but the house where
she really was my bff, was in North Carolina. So
(18:16):
I flew her ashes to North Carolina and spread them
in that yard. Now, we still owned the house at
the time that we spread it, we were renting it
to somebody else, So I felt safe doing that because
it was to tell them, no, it was my house.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
But were they there when you were doing it.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I don't know, it was midnight. I mean I think
they were.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
That's amazing. You're like, you don't even know, but I'm
spreading my dog's ashes in it.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
But that was something that was like I held onto
her ashes until we could get back to North Carolina
and go do that, and that was something that was
helpful for Ben and myself and my friend that went
with me. Like we flew back to North Carolina, we
were staying with my friend Sunday and like, yeah, around
eleven midnight ish, we went we sprinkled them in the yard,
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and that was that was a huge moment where it
was finally, Okay, this chapter is close. So again I
don't know if you've got ashes or what you did
with the body, but that might be something like where
was your's favorite place to go walk? Can you go
sprinkle a little bit there? Stuff like that. Does any
of this helpful? You're a therapist cat.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Yeah. The first thing I want to say is like
the stuff with the vet and having the fill in
vet and you feeling dismissed, that does suck.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
I think I.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Was it insensitive that I'm like, you need to let
that go.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yeah, well, no, it wasn't insensitive.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
I like the idea of surrendering because we've talked about
before when we imagine other scenarios, we always imagine them
best case scenarios and we don't know that. But I
think it does suck that you didn't have your vet,
because I think in general, you probably would have the
same thing could have happened, and you might have felt like, oh,
this makes sense, or just because you didn't know him,
he might have not had the rapport with you to
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really communicate.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Well, who knows.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
That part of it does sound like it sucks, And
I'm saying that as like, I'm not a person you
know this, So I'm also I have trying to be
extra sensitive just because I.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Don't have that.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Well, I think that's good. I didn't want to dismiss
her feelings around it, but in the grieving process, I
think I guess for me, I had to play that
game with my dad's surgery because something went wrong in
his throat surgery when they were moving his cancer, and
his quality of life was pretty much downhill after that.
In the next two years were brutal and horrible, and
I think I spent so much time should have Coda
(20:27):
wooding if we went with a different surgeon, or if
the surgeon had maybe not done a particular move that
he did, or if we had gone to a different hospital,
and that I just felt like it was a waste
of my energy when I could accept what was and
then move on to the grieving part.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Well, and that's where the both are true, Like that
sucks and you accepted it, and you don't.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Know what acceptance is part of grief, right, Like the
stages of grief with a pet again, I assume maybe
you would go through all the same stages. That's when
you do need to put attention, put attention to don't
just surrender it, as I said, but hopefully you can
get pass that part quicker.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
One thing I know doesn't help when we're trying to
get our mind off. If something is to tell ourselves
like stop thinking that, like that just makes it even.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Bigger in our brain.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
And so to actually give attention to it and acknowledge
what you're thinking. A mentor of mine a long time
ago would say, imagine the thought floating down a river,
and you see it in the river, and.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
You're like, oh h, I thought, I see you there.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I'm gonna let you keep going, and you just imagine
it continuing to float down the river as many times
as you need to do that.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
So even putting on.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Like some babbling brooks or something at night, and so
like you just you notice the thought like moving versus
saying stop thinking that, or saying the same thought over
and over and over again.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Oh that makes me think of something my cousin told me, Amanda,
who her podcast is soul Sessioned. Y'all might see that
popping up in our feed on the weekends. She has
a podcast on my network, So if you're wondering what
that is, it is her. But she once told me
when I was having some looping thoughts about some stuff
similar and it was very helpful, sort of like picture
a big clear bubble and put it inside the bubble
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and then just boo tap the bubble away like you
can still see it. It's there, but just gently tap
tap until it floats away. And every time you need
to put it in the bubble and you just tap
or floating down the river like whichever one works for you.
But I forgot tapping the clear bubble.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
It justs me.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
The more you try to avoid something, the bigger louder
it gets. So acknowledge it and then let it go
and continue to do that. I also really like the
idea of think you said this, listen to a meditation,
like a sleeping meditation, and then you're focusing on those
words as much as you can and hopefully you do
fall asleep through that.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
You know who I love to recommend for that. Jason Stevenson.
He does sleep talk down on YouTube. They're free. You
just put it on and he will talk you to sleep.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Okay, So maybe you can link a Jason Stevens.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Jason Stevenson.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
It's a nice name.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Yeah, it's got a nice accent.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yeah, And we're sending love to you because this does
sound like fifteen years. There's one part of that where
it's like, oh, this dog lived a long life and
then it's.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Like, oh, you had that dog for fifteen years. This
is a big that's a big change.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Thanks for sending us your question. We hope it is helpful,
and send us an update. I'm very curious, like if
you do have ashes or not, or if you sprung
for the paw print?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Oh, is that what you You can either get a
pawprint or cremation.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
No, they'll do the paw print before they creamate. Oh yeah,
you can get it like and I got like a
little yeah, like a plate with her pawprint. Oh you
buried your Yeah, that's what we used to do back
in the day.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
I just bury the dog in the backyard.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Backyard, Chris Hemsworth. My dog's bird that.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Died, Your dog's bird, my daughter's.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Sorry, my daughter's bird. My daughter's bird that died. It's
still in a waiting to be buried in the backyard,
slowly decomposing. But I ordered off an Amazon a rest
and peace sign. It's in the kitchen. Have you seen it,
yess Yeah, it's it's in the.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Center of the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I ordered on Amazon. You could maybe get one made
for your dog. It has like a bird on it.
And then I put Chris Hemsworth April twenty twenty five
to April twenty twenty five, because it wasn't alive that long.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
April to May. Is that a typo?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I think yeah, I think they maybe actually says April
to May.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
But actually remember we think that maybe it was a
twenty year old bird and you were sold an old bird.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yeah, that's right. So you know, look into those little
headstones you can get or little rituals in ways you
can honor your dog. And we're sending you love and light.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
And if you have a question, you can send it
to us. Hey there at Feeling Things podcast dot com.
And if you have a Couch Talks question, you can
send us an email just for fun. If you do
have a question, should put that in the subject so
we can organize it and see it.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
That's right, okay, and we hope you have the day
you need to have. Bye bye,
Good.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
All right, break it down.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
If you ever have feelings that you just won'ts home,
maybe a cat gotcha Covin locking a brother.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Ladies and folks, do you just follow.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
An the spirit where it's all.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
The phone over real stuff to the chill stuff and
the m but Swayne, sometimes the best thing you can
do it just stop you feel things. This is Feeling Things.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
With Amy and Kat.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Happy Thursday, Welcome to Couch Talks, our Q and a
episode to the Feeling Things podcast. I'm Amy and I'm Kat.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
And before we get started, quick disclaimer that although we
are answering your questions, this does not serve as a
replacement or substitute for any actual mental health services.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Nope, we're just reading your emails and then giving some
advice take it or leave it.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Given some feedback. Don't even call it advice anymore.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Oh yeah, no, not even just can't be doing that.
We're saying words, take them or leave them here home
or don't. Before we get into the Couch Talk's email,
we do have two other emails that Kat and I
are going to get into. She's going to read the
first one, which is about well, what I'm going to
be doing because we got a poem, and.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
When Cat reads her email that we should say trigger warning.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
We got a point. I really I don't know why.
I don't know how to say it. I'm trying to
be normal. I don't know how to say normal. Poem.
So you say it, poem, poem.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Shake a palm, shake your shoulders. Stop saying poem and
just shake your body. Now, say like, what did you
have for breakfast this morning?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
A bar?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
What's your favorite color?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Don't have one? Where were you born Austin?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
What's your mental name?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Elizabeth?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Say poem, poem?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I did it.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I'm a hypnotist.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Gosh, okay, I did Yes, that's good.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Oh my god, I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Okay, okay, So you're probably wondering why did we just
do that. Well, I'm about to tell you because I'm
gonna read. This might be my favorite email I've ever received.
And when I saw I said, I can't wait to
read this to Amy and the rest of everybody else.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I asked for permission.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
She said that we could read it and should be
so excited. And she means all of this with love,
And that's I think the best part of this email.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yes, and I saw her reply because I've also already
read the email, and I saw your interaction with her,
and she was like, by the way, I love Amy.
It just she can't handle the way it sounds in
her ears, so she has to like take her headphones.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
And this is how you give feedback in a kind way.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, and so I'm going to work on it. So
every time I need to say the word, well, they
don't even ca Thatt's gonna hypnotize me and then I'll
say it.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
So here's the email, says Hi, I am a longtime
listener of Bobby Bones in every single podcast that Amy
has ever been a part of. I am a huge
fan in one million different ways. One thing has been
getting under my skin a little bit. And it's so
trivial and so silly. But I'm wondering if anybody else
is hearing this, and if maybe I'm incorrect with the
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pronunciation of the word, or if this is something that
can be worked on. The word is poem Again. I
know that this is so silly, and it's not like
it makes a huge difference. It doesn't change how amazing
the content of the show is. But the more and
more you all kept talking about the poems, the more
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Amy is saying the word, and I honestly had to
turn the episode off early today because I couldn't take
it anymore. She's referring to last week's Couch Talks episode
as well. Yeah, or no, it was the last week
full Feeling Things episode where we did skyjournaling and we
read our poems.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, anytime we talk about it, I guess yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Again, I am from the Midwest, so maybe it's because
the way I have always heard it said. But I
really feel like she's emphasizing a part of the word
that's almost physically hurting my ears. That seems very but
I can't explain it in any other way. Something about
the way that she's saying the word is making it
very very hard to listen to episodes that you discuss
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poems in it all, which also makes me think, like,
how often are we talking about it?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I mean there's multiple and then I know we even
talked about them on the Bobby Bone Show, so she's
a listener of that.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
It could be that, she said, just wondering if anybody
else is noticing this, or if it's something I need
to work on within myself. Thank you so much and
please continue to make us laugh and cry and feel
so many things.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Heather, and I love that last part.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Of like she's saying, let me know if this is
something about me, I'll work on that too, Like.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Oh, that's kind.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I noticed when you were saying it last week. I
didn't say anything because I feel like I've kind of
poked at you and I felt like it was getting
old and I just wanted to let it go.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
But it sounds like listeners would like for you to
nip it in the bud. I don't know why I
say it the way I do well. My feelings isn't
her by the way you're looking at me, like okay,
let me put my kid gloves on. You can talk
to me like a just stick it to me straight.
(05:11):
I don't know why I say it the.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Way that I do well.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Part of the reason I'm like like, I also say
drawer weird.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Say wash wash oh. Some people say whosh.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Well, that's a like a regional.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Draw sad Am.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I saying it right now?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Am I saying it right?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I don't know, Dar, I don't know. I just know
that that's another one that, like, at least on the
Bobby Bone Show, they'll be like you say that weird
crown drawer poem.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I say Begel's and I say Vegas instead of Vegas Vegas.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
That's like the Vegas nerve.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
No, it's a Vegas nerve. That's why I say, because
Vegas nerve is v a g U. S Las Vegas
is v E, but it's Vegas.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I also say serum. Weird say serum serum No. You
usually say serum.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
No. I don't know, yes you do. There's no way
I say sorum.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Maybe I have because I remember you said it, and
we have a friend named Michelle that says serum and
I remember you said it, and I go, oh my gosh,
you say it like Michelle, and you said it in
a in a video. And one of my friends texted
me and said, Amy says serum.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Oh, well, you know what, surum might be one of
the ones that I are interchangeable for me where I
say serum sometimes are serum, sort of like I say
pajamas and sometimes I say pajamas.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
The reason that I don't want to be too harsh
is because one time an ex boyfriend of mine told
me that I have a lisp.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
You kind of do. Is that bad. I think it's cute.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Well he said it in a mean way. He was
like making fun of me.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Then I was like, oh, I have a speech impediment,
and nobody ever told me, and I never was able
to work on it. There is something weird about the
way I talk.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Well, sometimes my SA's whistle like and I'm talking. I
get notes about that from listeners that are so annoyed
by it, and they have to turn me off, and
I'm like, I don't know, that's just how I talk.
It gets the way my teeth and my tongue is
forming a word. I don't know what to do. I
don't know how to change that. I'm not speech theory.
(07:16):
Try really not put on. I can't let my tongue
and my teeth.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I've never noticed that about you.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Oh, I have trust me over the years, lots of
notes about that one.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Well, thanks for the feedback.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Amy's gonna work on it and work on poem the
rest of the word same however you want.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
You need to work on Bigel.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I need to work on my lips.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
What is like your list? You say begel Bigel?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I also say pillow weird or pillow? What's pel pillow,
I say, pillow.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Okay, you can never get onto me about poem again.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I never talked about pillows on the podcast. Whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Well, I showed up to your house the other day
with a bagel, and you would say that I showed
up with ag Okay, people are turning us off right
now with all of our words.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Okay, the poems.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Speaking of we got a poem from our listener named Karen,
so I'm going to read her poem. Thank you, hi, ladies.
I sky journaled because I like doing homework, which this
is a previous episode homework assignment that we gave out,
and Karen is a good student. She said, this is
what I came up with. I'm on the other side
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of fifty, so thoughts of mortality randomly pop into my head,
so just keep that in mind when I read her poem.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Sounds like I'm a button that you just ris.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Wispy clouds in the sky, gently gently rolling by, You
shift so slowly. Yet I wonder why the days, the months,
the years fly by. When I look up tomorrow, you'll
be gone, but new clouds will come along, and when
I see them, I will say I'm grateful for another day.
How many more do I have left to watch the
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clouds float and drift. I don't know my expiration date.
I don't know when I'll meet my fate. Until then,
I stay tuned to the sky to watch the wispy
clouds roll by. And then she said, thanks for keeping
us laughing and learning, Karen, which is an interesting way
to end a very are you really laughing? Somber somber poem,
(09:29):
Where's my button? Somber poem? Thank you? Which I do
find it interesting sometimes the people that think about death
a lot, because I don't ever ever, not really. Sometimes
I think about cancer and how many get it, maybe
because my parents had it, and I hope I don't,
but then I'm like, probably will. But then I'm like,
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don't think that way. That's sort of the thought process
that I have. But I don't think about death unless
I'm boarding a plane and I'm like, might go down.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
So you do think about it, but not every day.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
No, if you told me to go outside in journal
in the sky, my thoughts aren't going to be like
wondering about my expiration date. And she even said, I mean,
I'm Karen said in the beginning over that she has
thoughts of mortality randomly, and maybe that is with her age,
Like as you get older, you start to think about
how fleeting life is. But I do love the line
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of when new clouds come along and I see them,
I'll say I'm grateful for another day.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, So I feel like I think about death a
healthy amount. I've also always had this thought that I
might have like an early death. Just it's like a
weird thought I've had. But I also think of it
more as I get older. I also notice the age
of the people that are older than me, and that's
when I think about, like, oh, like when you're young,
you never think your parents. When I'm fifteen, my mom's
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going to live forever. When I'm thirty five, I'm like, oh,
we all are going to die anyway.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Well, so that leads me to our email, which you're
going to read, which are Elch Talks email, which is
about death. Part of what you didn't plan. Any of
this is just sort of all time together you ready, Ready?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Hi, Amy and Kat. I'm really enjoying your new podcast.
Each episode feels like being part of a conversation with friends.
I'm writing with a question about dealing with grief. Recently,
my fifteen year old dog passed away. I'd had her
my entire adult life, and as a single person, she
truly was my best friend, my constant. There was some
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trauma associated with the end of her life, seizures, dealing
with a fillin vet who dismissed us and told me
she didn't look ready to die, when hours later I
had to make the tough decision to let her go.
I'm having trouble turning off my brain if I'm not
doing something, and sometimes even if I am, my mind
wanders back to those final hours, seeing her struggling in
(12:01):
the pain of saying goodbye. Do you have any tips
for redirecting your attention when your mind gets caught in
loops like that. I try to recognize what's happening and
think of other things, but it's been really hard, especially
at night when I'm trying to fall asleep. Any tips
that you have would be greatly appreciated.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
And I know she wanted to remain anonymous, so we're
not saying her name, and I'm sitting here with Kara,
who is my dog that I got after my dog Josie,
who we also had to make the decision to put
her down, and I remember sitting there with my husband
at the time now my ex husband, but we went together,
and it is one of the hardest things ever. Have
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you ever had to do it with a pet?
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Yeah, but I didn't go.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
You didn't go. Were you a kid?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
No?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Oh, I was just an adult. But it was my
childhood dog.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
So it was my Your parents went, but actually my
mom couldn't go. My little brother went because my brother
was like, I'm not letting his name was Champ, Like
I don't want him to die alone.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
So my little brother went.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Yeah, it is a very difficult situation and one that, yeah,
I think is very normal that it's looping in your mind.
I will say, hearing that your dog was fifteen, that
is a long life for a dog. I don't know.
The breed must have been a smaller dog, because I
think Chihuahua's or the smaller the dog, the longer they live.
(13:24):
Really Okay, Shannon says here it's generally true that smaller
dog breeds tend to live longer than larger ones, for example,
a Chihuahua or a Yorkshire Terrier. Do they say that right?
Yorkshire Yorkshire York?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I don't know, I'm there a.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Button for that one. You're sure might live fifteen to
seventeen years, while a great Dane may only live seven
to ten. And I think ten is generous.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Like that is so sad. A seven year old is
like a puppy to me.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Well, but even humans, like really tall tall humans, like
the ones that are like seven feet tall, it's like
your heart is having to work extra hard because it's pumping.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
They die taller people die sooner.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I'm talking really tall, like a great day. It's like
a horse. I was just using an example, like like
a giant human, like some of the really tall ones.
I do think that they have a shorter life expectancy.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Okay, but that is a bonus for short guys.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yes, I guess short kings for short kings, yes, well,
And that's not to say anybody who's tall. Like when
I say tall, I'm talking about like irregularly tall, not
just a basketball not saying if your boyfriend's or your
husband's six seven. I don't know that that's an issue.
But you know some people are seven to five. Yeah, Like,
I think that you have to monitor that. The more
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you know this is not a medical podcast. Back to
the email and what you're going through, even though we're
making light of it, because we're also your friends, just
sitting around some microphones and hopefully this episode has given
you a little laughter in your grief and those two
things can be okay and you're able to experience life.
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I do know at night time that can be a
really difficult time when you're processing. I would encourage you
to surrender the whole situation with the vet, you know,
and being an experience or not being your normal vet
or whatever should a could a wood a situation because
your dog was older and lived a good life and
ultimately this likely was going to have to happen at
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some point. So if you can just set aside that
part and not wonder what could have happened if the
VET was working? And what's been helpful for me in
different times of grief, especially when it's your pet. I
don't know if like grieving a human is the same thing,
but with my dog Josie, like honoring her in different
(15:47):
ways or celebrating her, that was really special, reflecting having
pictures of her. I have a sketched photo that I
had done like a pencil artist, like a charcoal. Yeah,
it's like this really cool detailed photo of her. And
I haven't hung it up yet in this house but
in our East Nashville house where she was. I need
to find the right place to put it in my
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new house. But when she died, we had it hung
up in a prominent spot and I loved having her
there with us. Like even after we got Kara, we
got a new dog, it was like, well, there's Josie.
It didn't match because they're like, well, that's your dog, Kara,
who's that Rottweiler up there like in this big, beautiful frame,
And I'm like, oh, let me tell you, that's Josie.
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And she was my bff. Like she was with me
through all the deployments that my husband at the time had.
She was my protector. I was very, very bonded with her,
more so than Kara. But remember Kara, I told you
to close your ears, like, I don't know that I'll
ever have a relationship like I have with that dog,
Like she was everything. So how can you honor your
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dog in that way and set up some sort of
a like a shrine.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
You could do a shrine if you want.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yeah, but something's where.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
It's not about forgetting it. So, yeah, remembering and that's
a good healthy thing.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yeah, did your dog have a birthday? Can you still
celebrate that? Light a candle? Can you write some letters?
Can you journal through it?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Again?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Journal? It's not for everybody. We know that from cat.
But frame your favorite photo or have a piece of
artwork done. Oh, this is what I had done. It
was commissioned. That's how you say it. Oh, I commissioned
someone to sketch her. And so can you do that
for yourself as like a gift because that was something
that was really special and then you can have that
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and then when you're going to bed at night, are there.
Everybody's different, But meditations are so helpful for me to
calm my mind, my looping mind. That may not work
for you, but that would be a piece of advice
that I have for you to try, so that you
can calm your mind or talk about how you miss
your dog. Then I just had a really weird thought
of like I don't know what she did with her dogs,
(17:55):
like ashes? Oh, like have some people stuff their dogs? Yeah,
you don't have to stuff your dog and have it there,
but if you cremated it. I had Josie's ashes for
a while. She died in Nashville, but the house where
she really was my bff, was in North Carolina. So
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I flew her ashes to North Carolina and spread them
in that yard. Now, we still owned the house at
the time that we spread it, we were renting it
to somebody else, So I felt safe doing that because
it was to tell them, no, it was my house.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
But were they there when you were doing it.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I don't know, it was midnight. I mean I think
they were.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
That's amazing. You're like, you don't even know, but I'm
spreading my dog's ashes in it.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
But that was something that was like I held onto
her ashes until we could get back to North Carolina
and go do that, and that was something that was
helpful for Ben and myself and my friend that went
with me. Like we flew back to North Carolina, we
were staying with my friend Sunday and like, yeah, around
eleven midnight ish, we went we sprinkled them in the yard,
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and that was that was a huge moment where it
was finally, Okay, this chapter is close. So again I
don't know if you've got ashes or what you did
with the body, but that might be something like where
was your's favorite place to go walk? Can you go
sprinkle a little bit there? Stuff like that. Does any
of this helpful? You're a therapist cat.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Yeah. The first thing I want to say is like
the stuff with the vet and having the fill in
vet and you feeling dismissed, that does suck.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
I think I.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Was it insensitive that I'm like, you need to let
that go.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yeah, well, no, it wasn't insensitive.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
I like the idea of surrendering because we've talked about
before when we imagine other scenarios, we always imagine them
best case scenarios and we don't know that. But I
think it does suck that you didn't have your vet,
because I think in general, you probably would have the
same thing could have happened, and you might have felt like, oh,
this makes sense, or just because you didn't know him,
he might have not had the rapport with you to
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really communicate.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Well, who knows.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
That part of it does sound like it sucks, And
I'm saying that as like, I'm not a person you
know this, So I'm also I have trying to be
extra sensitive just because I.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Don't have that.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Well, I think that's good. I didn't want to dismiss
her feelings around it, but in the grieving process, I
think I guess for me, I had to play that
game with my dad's surgery because something went wrong in
his throat surgery when they were moving his cancer, and
his quality of life was pretty much downhill after that.
In the next two years were brutal and horrible, and
I think I spent so much time should have Coda
(20:27):
wooding if we went with a different surgeon, or if
the surgeon had maybe not done a particular move that
he did, or if we had gone to a different hospital,
and that I just felt like it was a waste
of my energy when I could accept what was and
then move on to the grieving part.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Well, and that's where the both are true, Like that
sucks and you accepted it, and you don't.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Know what acceptance is part of grief, right, Like the
stages of grief with a pet again, I assume maybe
you would go through all the same stages. That's when
you do need to put attention, put attention to don't
just surrender it, as I said, but hopefully you can
get pass that part quicker.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
One thing I know doesn't help when we're trying to
get our mind off. If something is to tell ourselves
like stop thinking that, like that just makes it even.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Bigger in our brain.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
And so to actually give attention to it and acknowledge
what you're thinking. A mentor of mine a long time
ago would say, imagine the thought floating down a river,
and you see it in the river, and.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
You're like, oh h, I thought, I see you there.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I'm gonna let you keep going, and you just imagine
it continuing to float down the river as many times
as you need to do that.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
So even putting on.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Like some babbling brooks or something at night, and so
like you just you notice the thought like moving versus
saying stop thinking that, or saying the same thought over
and over and over again.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Oh that makes me think of something my cousin told me, Amanda,
who her podcast is soul Sessioned. Y'all might see that
popping up in our feed on the weekends. She has
a podcast on my network, So if you're wondering what
that is, it is her. But she once told me
when I was having some looping thoughts about some stuff
similar and it was very helpful, sort of like picture
a big clear bubble and put it inside the bubble
(22:15):
and then just boo tap the bubble away like you
can still see it. It's there, but just gently tap
tap until it floats away. And every time you need
to put it in the bubble and you just tap
or floating down the river like whichever one works for you.
But I forgot tapping the clear bubble.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
It justs me.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
The more you try to avoid something, the bigger louder
it gets. So acknowledge it and then let it go
and continue to do that. I also really like the
idea of think you said this, listen to a meditation,
like a sleeping meditation, and then you're focusing on those
words as much as you can and hopefully you do
fall asleep through that.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
You know who I love to recommend for that. Jason Stevenson.
He does sleep talk down on YouTube. They're free. You
just put it on and he will talk you to sleep.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Okay, So maybe you can link a Jason Stevens.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Jason Stevenson.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
It's a nice name.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Yeah, it's got a nice accent.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yeah, And we're sending love to you because this does
sound like fifteen years. There's one part of that where
it's like, oh, this dog lived a long life and
then it's.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Like, oh, you had that dog for fifteen years. This
is a big that's a big change.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Thanks for sending us your question. We hope it is helpful,
and send us an update. I'm very curious, like if
you do have ashes or not, or if you sprung
for the paw print?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Oh, is that what you You can either get a
pawprint or cremation.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
No, they'll do the paw print before they creamate. Oh yeah,
you can get it like and I got like a
little yeah, like a plate with her pawprint. Oh you
buried your Yeah, that's what we used to do back
in the day.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
I just bury the dog in the backyard.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Backyard, Chris Hemsworth. My dog's bird that.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Died, Your dog's bird, my daughter's.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Sorry, my daughter's bird. My daughter's bird that died. It's
still in a waiting to be buried in the backyard,
slowly decomposing. But I ordered off an Amazon a rest
and peace sign. It's in the kitchen. Have you seen it,
yess Yeah, it's it's in the.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Center of the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I ordered on Amazon. You could maybe get one made
for your dog. It has like a bird on it.
And then I put Chris Hemsworth April twenty twenty five
to April twenty twenty five, because it wasn't alive that long.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
April to May. Is that a typo?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I think yeah, I think they maybe actually says April
to May.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
But actually remember we think that maybe it was a
twenty year old bird and you were sold an old bird.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yeah, that's right. So you know, look into those little
headstones you can get or little rituals in ways you
can honor your dog. And we're sending you love and light.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
And if you have a question, you can send it
to us. Hey there at Feeling Things podcast dot com.
And if you have a Couch Talks question, you can
send us an email just for fun. If you do
have a question, should put that in the subject so
we can organize it and see it.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
That's right, okay, and we hope you have the day
you need to have. Bye bye,
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