Feel The Gap: Recent Episodes
Feel The Gap
A podcast where two friends dive into conversations about everyday life – the complex, messy, and unexpectedly joyous and sad ways we feel, speak, and be.
We’re here to listen and to share the intimate stories we all bear – sometimes too close to heart and sometimes just waiting to be heard. Living in a world with people is tricky. It gets a bit lonely and it gets a bit loud at times. Let's discover the experience of being human, and feel the gap, together.
In this episode, we enter 2023 with reflections on loneliness that creep up at different phases in our lives. Together with our guest from Vietnam, we talk about being seen, existential emptiness, the struggles of finding a good listener, and the difficulties of accepting such painful feelings.
In this catch-up episode of FTG, we dip our toes in some vulnerability and unpack the changes that have been happening in our lives – the start and end of relationships, jobs, and homes. It’s all about change: how difficult and painful it can be, the growth in letting go, and finding excitement and liberation in change. We even sneak in a little behavioural experiment [see 45:00] that takes form from mindfulness and attachment. We wish you all the best in your changes.
In this episode of FTG, we dive in with an old friend on the fluctuating tides of friendship. We talk about the purposes friendships serve at different stages, the difficulties in holding on and letting go of friends, and having an identity and boundaries in these relationships.
We invite Ro from ThePsychDiaries to have a little conversation about both giving and receiving therapy. We explore the experience of being human, finding the "right" fit and time for therapy, learning the language for emotions, and what to do if someone we love is struggling.
On this episode of Feel The Gap, we open up about our own stories navigating uncertainties, vulnerabilities, and taking risks in matters close to the heart.
In this episode, we delve deeper into the world of our inner voices with the help of a new voice (pun intended) on the podcast. We explore the ironic ways we can bring ourselves down during times that we need a little more care, the language and culture of our environments that build such voices, and ways we have learned to manage and grow our healthier voices.
In this episode, we were curious about the ways we have learnt to speak to ourselves- perhaps a very early step into this topic. In the vast space of our minds, we can sometimes become our own worst critics...never satisfied, demanding more. Other times, we may hear a softer and kinder voice. We talk about the balance of being self-critical but also self-affirming, and possibility of thriving in the world without having the inner critic as the only voice we hear.
We made it! 2020 seemed like a long-a** year that flew by. With the help of some friends, we reflect on 2020 - the struggles, the growth, and many other existential crises.
On this episode of Feel The Gap, we took the liberty to invite our partners as our first live guests! We talk about first dates, starting (our) relationships, LDR, and the stigma and challenges of dating apps.
In this episode, we have a little catch-up sesh where we talk about our personal struggles with finance, planning for the future, and basically lamenting about #adulting.
In this episode of Feel The Gap, we explore the extremely real and yet undeniably torturous struggle we have with feeling good enough with ourselves. We delve into stories about romantic partners and confessions, comparing ourselves to others, feeling like we're falling behind in life, and questioning whether what we're doing is actually enough.
01:30 - Difficulties with putting our hearts out there, the fears of rejection, and being good enough for someone else.
22:32 - Feeling inadequate with our progress in life, and using other people as benchmarks for our value.
44:28 - It's hard being a teacher, and it's hard knowing whether what we do for others is ever really good enough.
On this first episode of Feel The Gap, we talk about unexpected change and loss during COVID-19, unpacking grief in its many forms, and coming face to face with death and our identities.