DiscoverSex, Love & Money with Rebecca Antonucci#166: Female Friendship, Shadow Work & Finding Your “Platonic Wife” with Amy Rushworth & Felicity Morgan
#166: Female Friendship, Shadow Work & Finding Your “Platonic Wife” with Amy Rushworth & Felicity Morgan

#166: Female Friendship, Shadow Work & Finding Your “Platonic Wife” with Amy Rushworth & Felicity Morgan

Update: 2025-10-12
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Two powerhouses get radically honest about sister wounds, pedestal dynamics, loyalty, and what it actually takes to build calm, ride-or-die female friendships in your 30s. We go there: betrayal, trolling, comparison, nervous-system collapse, hard truths, better sex, more love, and more money, because the right best friend changes everything.


If you’ve been burned by women, can’t spot red flags until it’s too late, or feel like every friendship turns into emotional labor…this is your blueprint for healing, choosing better, and becoming the friend you want to attract.


We Cover:

  • “Platonic dating” is a thing. Intentionally sliding into a woman’s DMs to build friendship is courageous, and necessary as an adult.

  • Loyalty > vibes. Your closest friend should never sit in a room where your name is being trashed.

  • Pedestals are dangerous. Inferiority/superiority dynamics breed jealousy, entitlement, and eventual betrayal.

  • Neediness vs. nurturance. Reciprocity flows; score-keeping clings.

  • Functional freeze is real. You can be online and “fine” while shut down inside.

  • Keep the wound, lose the driver. You don’t have to erase your “sister wound,” just don’t let it steer the car.

  • Apologies without change = gaslighting. Repair needs behavior, not platitudes.

  • One quality friend can 10x your life. Shared values (loyalty, standards, ambition) create peace, polarity, and momentum, in love, sex, and business.

Timestamps

  • 00:00 Heartbreaks with women & the cost of betrayal
  • 02:25 Lone-wolf energy & learning to ask for help
  • 03:17 DM-ing for friendship: how Amy and Felicity met
  • 06:14 Female trolling, public betrayal & nervous-system fallout
  • 12:50 Signs you’re in functional freeze (but still “functioning”)
  • 14:27 Is it “my shadow” or their behavior? Discernment 101
  • 16:32 How to start again when you have zero true girlfriends
  • 21:19 Pedestals, comparison, and self-obsession online
  • 23:50 Walking on eggshells = trauma bond (not a friendship
  • 28:33 Where women go wrong: attachment games & manipulation
  • 29:43 Finding your shadow: who triggers you and why
  • 37:18 Real shadows inside a healthy friendship (examples)
  • 44:18 Hard conversations & standards without drama
  • 51:07 Sex, polarity & why the right bestie improves your sex life
  • 57:21 Cut off or forgive? Behavior > words
  • 01:00:37 Money, momentum & calling each other higher
  • 01:02:18 Energetic collaboration & building together


Connect with today’s guests

Amy Rushworth: @thisisamyrushwort

Felicity Morgan: @iamfelicitymorgan


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#166: Female Friendship, Shadow Work & Finding Your “Platonic Wife” with Amy Rushworth & Felicity Morgan

#166: Female Friendship, Shadow Work & Finding Your “Platonic Wife” with Amy Rushworth & Felicity Morgan

Rebecca Antonucci