In this intimate opening to Season 2 of office hours, Bat (the cat) and G (dropout philosopher) reflect on the belief that they've always been “too much”—too sensitive, too dramatic, that they're simply prone to neuroticism—and how that shaped their relationship with emotion.

Drawing from Internal Family Systems and the practice of Rasa Sadhana, Bat and G explain this season's title: the care and feeding of feral children. This episode sets the stage for a journey through the nine Rasas—emotions not as problems to fix, or depravity to eradicate, but as communicators of the parts of us that deserve understanding, context, and care, that want to protect us in a terrifying world.