June 27, 2024 • 35 mins
Can the rollercoaster of emotions be a tool for deeper understanding and empathy? Join me, Monique Simmons, as I recount the heartfelt experience of watching "Inside Out 2" with my daughter, Zoey. This episode promises to unravel the intricate emotional landscape portrayed in the film, introducing new characters like Anxiety, Embarrassment, and Boredom. We'll explore how these emotions shape Riley's journey into her teenage years and reflect on the poignant moments that resonated deeply with us, particularly Joy's struggle to maintain constant optimism. This film serves as a rich conversation starter for families and couples, making it a must-watch to better understand and support our loved ones' emotional growth.
We confront the overwhelming dominance of Anxiety in Riley's life and discuss the significant pressures she faces from multiple fronts. As Joy comes to a crucial realization about her controlling nature, akin to Anxiety's, we delve into the pivotal moments that highlight the necessity of embracing all emotions. Through this exploration, we emphasize the importance of a balanced emotional core and how acceptance of both positive and negative experiences helps in building resilience. Join this insightful journey to understand how embracing a full spectrum of emotions can be a transformative experience for anyone.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
what's up, guys?
Welcome to demo with mo.
I'm your host, monique simmons.
We'll be discussing dating,engaged and married objectives
from a young christian'sperspective.
Are you guys ready?
Let's dive in.
Hey, what's up, guys?
Welcome to a new episode ofdemo with mo.
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I am your host, monique simmons.
Today we are going to bediscussing repressing emotions.
Spoiler alert.
Spoiler alert if you have notseen Out 2 yet, you may want to
pause this episode and come backto it later, because I will be
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discussing some things fromInside Out 2.
So, spoiler alert.
Now you have been warned.
I do not want to ruin it foryou.
It was an amazing movie and Ido not want to ruin it for you.
Today we will be discussingrepressing emotions, and what
does that have to do with InsideOut 2.
?
If you have seen it, you knowthe answer to this question, and
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if not, we're going to go aheadand jump right into it.
So this past weekend if you'relistening to this live this past
weekend, I took my youngestdaughter, miss Zoe, to see
Inside Out 2.
And for those of you who know,I have an older daughter as well
, a teenage daughter.
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The plan was to take heroriginally, but she was out of
town for a basketball tournamentwith her dad.
So I had to take baby girlbecause she had saw the previews
of it while we were previouslyseeing another movie and I
promised that I would take herand if I'm being honest, don't
you guys tell her this but Iwanted to go see it by myself.
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I had heard so many greatthings about it.
I heard a lot of things aboutthis new character anxiety, so I
really wasn't sure how I wasgoing to do for a four-year-old.
But it worked out very well.
She watched the first 45minutes to an hour and she ended
up falling asleep after eatinga junk load of popcorn, so it
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worked out very well for me.
Inside Out 2,.
I highly recommend this movie,highly recommend.
And if you have teenage noteven just teenage daughters,
even though the main characterin the story who's a teenage
girl?
Her name is Riley, even thoughthe main character is Riley a
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young lady, I even recommend youtaking your teenage young sons,
if you have them.
I really recommend this movie.
I do.
And even if you don't havechildren, I recommend you going
to see this by yourself.
This is a great date nightmovie as well.
Hear me out, hear me out.
I know it's not the mostromantic, it ain't nothing.
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You probably gonna be booed upor cuddled up watching, but I
promise it's a great discussionstarter to have in your
relationship.
I plan on having some comboswith my husband about it soon.
It's just great overall tointend across the board from me.
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Seriously, I thought it was sogood I wanted to come and talk
about it with you guys.
On the podcast episode, the maincharacter, riley.
She is becoming a teenager andshe is now experiencing some new
emotions and some new emotionsare coming on the scene.
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A few of the new emotionsthat's coming on, one of the
main ones that everybody wastalking about, and they talked
about it so much that evenbefore I went and saw the movie
for myself, I was thinking thatit was going to be like the only
one that they kind of focusedon the whole entire movie.
But that wasn't the case.
So I just want if you felt likeme, I just want to let you know
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that is not the case.
They're going to also talkabout other emotions, but
anxiety was talked about so much.
I was thinking that was theonly emotion that they were
going to focus on.
So anxiety is one of theemotions that was new on the
scene.
They had embarrassment, theyhad boredom, and there were a
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few others and Joy, who I'm justgoing to go ahead and say I
relate to so much.
I mean, so many people wererelating to anxiety and again, I
kept hearing about anxiety, somuch and so many people talking
about it.
But when I went and saw themovie for myself, the person
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that kept that I kept relatingto, that stood out to me was Joy
.
Like Joy was like girl, you,you, you understand me like Joy
had a moment in the movie whereshe like, kind of like, goes off
on the other emotions, the oneswho've been there.
The originals is the otheremotions, the ones who've been
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there.
The originals is what I callthem, the ones who've been there
from the beginning.
And I'm not going to give youguys everything, because if
you're still listening to thisand you haven't seen it, I
really want you to go see it.
I'm not going to give youeverything, everything.
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But she has this moment withthem when they're searching for
the back of Riley's mind andthey're getting lost and she's
getting frustrated and with joy,she's always optimistic, she's
always believing for the best,hoping for the best.
That's just who she is.
She's joy, her emotion, is joy.
She's always going to try tobelieve the best.
She's always has a smell on herface.
That's just who she is.
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That's what she embodies,that's her character, that is
her emotions.
That's who she is.
But she has this moment wherethey're all getting so
frustrated and they begin tolike, try to like, tear her down
, basically Like you don't knowwhat you're doing, we're lost,
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you know cause?
She's like the leader,unspokenly, like she's the
leader, the leader of the bunch,and they're following her and
you know they've been followingher along this whole day and
they're trying to figure thisthing out.
And she doesn't have it alltogether, but she's trying,
she's always continuing to try.
And they begin to say all ofthese negative things and Joy
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gets to the point where she hasenough and she said do you know
how hard it is to always try tobe optimistic, to always try to
see the good?
Basically and I'm just this ismy summarization and she's just
like do you know how hard thatis?
You think, because I'm joy,that it's just easy being joy.
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Do you think this is just easy?
To always try to see the good,to always believe for the best.
Do you think this is easy?
So that scene.
My daughter is asleep by thistime Because everybody was on
social media and TikTok and Iwas seeing all the videos and
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commentary.
After I saw the movie, peoplewere having all the commentaries
and videos about how they feltand who stood out to them and
who they related to andeverybody was saying how, at the
end there is a specific partwith anxiety and that was the
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piece that stood out to a lot ofpeople.
But for me, because I relatedto joy, it was the part where
joy finally like had enough ofall of their negativity and all
of their negative comments ather, even though she was
continuing to try over and overand over and be optimistic over
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and over and over and try to seethe best and believe the best
over and over and over againwhere it was like she had had
enough the bits over and overand over again, where it was
like she had had enough I.
That was the part that like,yes, joy, yes, joy, I I feel you
joy, because I felt her, likeso many people, had that, that
revelation in that moment wherethey could relate to some
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emotion in that movie, becausethat was a beautiful thing.
It was so many emotions and somany different characters that I
don't care where you are in theworld, who you are, what you've
been through, what you'veexperienced, what age you are.
It's some emotion that you canrelate to.
There was disgust, there wassadness.
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I mean there were so manydifferent, different emotions.
There's going to be one thatstands out for you, that's going
to make you be like yes, that'sme, that's where I am, that's
how I feel.
You get me, you understand me.
And for me, that was joy.
I felt joy, I understood joy, Irelated to joy, and this is not
even what this episode.
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I just went on a whole rantabout that because that's how
good this movie was.
You guys, you have to go see it.
You have to go see it, you haveto go see it.
You have to go see it.
But we're talking aboutrepressing emotions.
So one of the things that wasgoing on with Joy Riley would
have.
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Just like any of us in life,we're human.
We have beautiful moments inour lives great times with our
families, happy moments, thingsthat make us laugh, great things
.
We all love times like that.
But also with life, you havesad moments, times where you're
disappointed, you're hurt,you're disgusted, you're let
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down, somebody does something tohurt your feelings, or you may
not pass a test, or someone diesin your life, or you just
experience things that are notso good or don't feel so good.
And I know some of you arelistening today and you're like,
yeah, you know, and some of youmay be even experiencing some
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of those things that I just saidright now.
Or you have experienced them oryou will one day, because
that's life, we're human andthat's part of life.
The issue was in this movie withJoy, what Joy would doiley
experienced the the not so goodthings, the unwanted, the
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unwanted memories.
Joy would get rid of them.
And joy's way of getting rid ofthem?
She invented this one-waymechanism to like shoot.
They had, like these balls.
It shaped like a ball and itwas different colors.
And for the unwanted memories,the bad things, the negative
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experiences, they were orangeand this is very important
because each ball was a color,but these negative experiences,
these unwanted memories, theywere orange.
So what Joy would do aftergetting a good amount of orange
balls because all of us aregoing to have a good amount of
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orange balls or unwantedmemories or experiences in our
lives, things that hurt us,disappoint us.
We're going to experience that.
But after Riley would get a goodamount of these things to
happen, what Joy would do shewould gather it all, gather them
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all up, gather all thesememories all up, and she would
shoot them off in this littleinvention that she created, on
this one-way express, like thislittle tube that would shoot the
memories off, and it'sspecifically you specifically
need to know.
It's one way, because theycan't come back.
Once she shoots them off,they're gone, they're.
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They're gone, basically forever.
So joy kept all of the goodthings, all of the pleasant
things, all of the happymemories, but she got rid of all
of the unwanted memories,anything that would remind Riley
of anything bad that everhappened in her life.
She would get rid of all ofthese things, and her reason for
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doing this?
She didn't want it to be a partof Riley's core memory, her
core memory being the thingsthat made her who she was, like
her core values, the person thatshe would come to be, those
things that make you who you are, those things that make me
Monique, those memories, thosethings that I vividly remember
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from my life, that make me who Iam, that make me believe the
way I believe, the values that Ihave, the morals that I have,
the things that make me who I am.
So joy would get rid of all ofthese things.
So Riley hits puberty.
And when Riley hits puberty thenew emotions that I told you
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guys about in the beginning ofthe episode they pop up on the
scene.
And one of those emotions wasguess who?
Anxiety, the one I told youeverybody has been talking about
, and I'm sure you've heardabout Anxiety by now.
This movie has been out for alittle while now, so I'm sure
you've heard about good oldAnxiety by now.
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And guess what color MissAnxiety is?
She is orange, very important,because remember I told you the
color of the unwanted memoriesthat Joy kept shooting off on
the one-way expressway they wereorange.
So guess who's orange, littleold Miss Anxiety.
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So these unwanted memories thatyou were trying to get rid of,
that you didn't want to be apart of her, that you were
trying to suppress of, that youdidn't want to be a part of her,
that you were trying tosuppress, because I told you
guys, we're talking aboutsuppressed emotions.
You only wanted her to rememberthe good things, but you didn't
want her to remember the sadthings, the things that hurt her
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, that disappointed her.
You basically wanted tosuppress those emotions.
Does that sound familiar to you?
Have you ever done that?
You don't allow yourself tofeel because you, you know we're
not joy.
We don't have an inventionwhere we can just shoot off the
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bad things that have happened tous, the things we wish we
couldn't remember anymore.
But we can suppress them.
We cannot allow ourselves tofeel those things.
We don't talk about them, wedon't acknowledge them, we act
like it didn things.
We don't talk about them, wedon't acknowledge them, we act
like it didn't happen.
We don't deal with it.
We just want to be what Joykept saying.
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Raleigh's a good girl,raleigh's a good person.
That's what Raleigh kept saying.
And even her parents keptinsinuating and kept saying to
her you're such a good girl,you're such a good girl.
They kept saying that to herover and over, like throughout,
even when they show likememories from the past and in
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different scenes in the moviethey would say you're such a
good girl, you're my good girl.
They kept on saying it and Joywould say that you know, I take
such good care of the otheremotions would tell Joy, you
take such good care of Riley andRiley, you're such a good girl
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and you're a good person.
And Riley would say you knowwhat Riley would say to herself
You're a good person, you're agood person.
So that's from suppressing allof those unwanted emotions.
You only want to rememberwhat's good, so you only want to
do what's good because you wantto be a good person.
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Your parents saying you're agood girl, the emotions inside
of you that, the ones that's notbeing suppressed are telling
you to be good.
So you're putting this pressureon yourself to be good.
Now I got to show up in life asthis good girl the pressure of
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my family, the pressure atschool, the pressure with
extracurricular activities,because now Riley is playing for
a hockey team and his coachthis coach sees her from the
high school team and she isimpressed by Riley and invites
her and her friends.
And now she has the pressure oftrying to make this high school
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team and I'm a good person andI'm a good girl and I'm a good
team player and I'm good, I'mgood, I'm good, I'm good.
And now she's beginning to dealwith anxiety because I told you
she got this new emotion on thescene, all of these feelings and
all of these bad, unwantedmemories that Joy was
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suppressing, that Joy wasgetting rid of.
So Riley was never able to dealwith him.
She was never able to face themand work through them and
confront them.
She only suppressed them andignored them and didn't
acknowledge them.
So you know whatxiety showed upon the scene and anxiety began
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to take over Riley's life.
So where once Joy was kind ofdriving the seat, anxiety came
and took over.
Anxiety got rid of all of Joyand her team.
So anxiety got rid of all ofthem, or attempted to anyway.
So I'm not going to get intoall of that.
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But what anxiety does?
Anxiety begins to come on thescene and with anxiety, anxiety
would think about all of thethings that could happen in the
future.
So it's not even happening,it's not real, it's not
happening in real time, in themoment.
Anxiety would think about allof the things that could happen.
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Anxiety would literally thinkabout 50 different scenarios of
what could happen in Riley'slife and she would try to work
every scenario of what couldhappen in all 50 scenarios.
That's how anxiety works.
Anxiety doesn't go by what'sreal and what's happening now.
But let me solve what couldhappen.
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And what could happen is 50different things and I need to
solve all 50 things.
So anxiety begins to take over.
And anxiety didn't like joy,because joy says well, that's
not happening right now and itmight not happen, so let's not
worry about that if that's nothappening.
But anxiety is like no, no,that's not how we're doing it
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anymore.
She's getting ready to go tohigh school and she needs us now
.
We can't do it the way you'vebeen doing it anymore.
Okay, so fast forward, anx.
Anxiety takes over and thingsbegin to fall apart in Riley's
life because she can't beperfect.
She can't be this good girlthat she kept telling herself
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that she was this good person.
And it's the same for us.
We can't be good, perfect, getit all right.
That's not how it works.
So Joy and her friends, theother emotions, the originals
they begin to try to save Riley.
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They see how everything isfalling apart and they begin to
try to save Riley.
And I mentioned to you guysearlier how they were trying to
get to try to save Riley and Imentioned to you guys earlier
how they were.
They were trying to get to backto the back of Riley's mind so
they could take over and getanxiety up out of there and how
joy basically went off on theother emotions.
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Okay, so they went through allof that and and they get back to
the main center.
There's so many things thathappen, I'm not telling you.
I'm getting to the point ofrepressing emotions.
They get back to the maincenter and anxiety has lost her
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mind, literally.
It looks like because she'sgoing so fast and working
through so many scenarios andtrying to do like a million
things at crazy speeds, like itlooks like a tornado is going
through the main room thatthey're in and all of the
emotions, even the new emotionsthat came in with anxiety,
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they're all worried aboutanxiety.
They're all looking at her likesomebody needs to get her
because anxiety is controllingthe control board.
There's a control board that,whichever emotion is touching
the control board, this is theemotion that Riley is reflecting
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in her life.
So if joy is touching thecontrol board, riley is
reflecting joy in her life.
That's how she's presentingherself in life.
If disgust is touching theboard, riley is reflecting
disgust.
Maybe she ate somethingdisgusting and she didn't like
it.
That disgust would be on thecontrol board.
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So this is how the controlboard works.
Well, anxiety is on the boardand anxiety is losing it.
She is going around thatcontrol board like a tornado.
She's touching every piece ofboard and it literally looks
like she is a tornado.
Have you ever seen a Tasmaniadevil?
This is what anxiety looks likegoing around this board.
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Every time somebody tries toget close to her, it knocks them
back.
That's how fast she is going.
Well, after attempting multipletries, joy finally gets in.
Now this is the scene of themovie that everybody has talked
about.
Everybody has talked about itand you have probably heard it
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from different perspectives.
You probably heard it from theemotional side, the scientific
side, even from Christians andbelievers.
They wanted to shout in thetheater.
I'm just telling you.
You probably heard it fromeverybody's point of view.
Okay, so this scene is when Joyfinally gets into anxiety at the
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control board, and it's.
You can still see anxietywhipping around the control
board, whipping, whipping,whipping, but anxiety is stuck.
She's stuck at the controlboard, even though it's still
going insanely crazy around her.
She's stuck at the board andshe can't let go.
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She's holding on so tight tothe board, trying to control
Riley's life.
She don't want things to fallapart, even things that aren't
happening.
She wants to control everythingthe future, what could happen?
Because that's how anxiety isworking.
You're worried about everyoutcome.
What is what could happen?
Because that's how anxiety isworking.
You're worried about everyoutcome.
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What is what ain't what couldbe?
Anxiety is just she's stuck,she just can't let go.
She's stuck in a zone.
She can't hear what's going onoutside of her, she can't see
what's going on, she's juststuck in a zone.
Well, joy gets in there and Joysays anxiety, you got to let go
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.
And anxiety doesn't hear.
And Joy says anxiety, and y'allI'm paraphrasing, you got to
see it for yourself.
It's just so much, it's just somuch.
Joy calls her name anxiety andat this point, joy, it's like
Joy's breathing slows down orsomething Like everything slows
down.
Joy was like Anxiety.
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I think that's why theChristians got so excited at
this point.
And when she says it, a tearbegins to fall out Anxiety's eye
.
This is like the moment whereshe finally hears Joy and Joy
said you have to let her go.
And anxiety lets the board go.
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And they're finally able to dothat.
They were trying to add thispiece to the machine that made
Raleigh's core beliefs, that isa whole thing.
But it was this pieceigh's corebeliefs, that is a whole thing.
But it was this piece for hercore beliefs Because you
remember when I told you guysearlier when I started out, how
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Joy would get rid of theunwanted memories, the bad
things, because she didn't wantthose unwanted memories to
become a part of Raleigh's corebeliefs, which is what makes us
who we are and what we believe,why we believe our values, just
makes us the individual that weare our core beliefs.
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So something that I left outthat's important when anxiety
went into the control board, shebroke the core belief like but
it looked like a little trophyis what it looks like and
anxiety broke it because shewent and started adding those
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unwanted memories that joy gotrid of.
She went and got those unwantedmemories that Joy originally
got rid of and started addingthem to to Riley's core belief
and it created this new littletrophy of core beliefs because
now it had it.
It had the unwanted memoriesthat Joy never wanted there.
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So when Joy got back to thecontrol room and got anxiety to
let go of the control board, sheput the original trophy back
and I'm sure y'all trophy is notwhat it's called, but you know,
rock with me, rock with me.
She put the original trophyback of the core beliefs, the
one that she originally had,with just a good memory.
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She got rid of the one thatanxiety put up there, okay.
So anxiety is laid out on thefloor.
She's tired, anxiety has beenall over it, like she's been
worried and stressed out and youcould just tell they just
portrayed this so well Likeshe's literally on the floor out
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of breath and she's talking.
But you well, like she'sliterally on the floor, out of
breath and she's talking, butyou can tell she's like talking
barely with any breath.
This is how she's talking.
And she says to joy, as joy'sgetting ready to replace the
trophy back the way itoriginally was, she tells Joy,
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she says I'm so sorry, I wasonly trying to protect Riley,
which is what anxiety was tryingto do.
She was only trying to protectRiley.
And she says you're right, wecan't control who Riley will be.
And it was at that moment.
It was at that moment where Joyrealized the same thing she had
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just accused anxiety of doingby telling her to let her go you
can't control who Riley wouldbe.
She realized that that momentthey have this moment, like you
can tell where the light bulbcame on and all of these past
memories come up for joy, whereit showed, like all of the
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things that she had been doingin the past to control Riley,
who Riley would be.
Even though she's Joy, Eventhough she's doing it in a
positive way, basicallyprotecting Riley, the same way
anxiety was protecting Riley.
They're all doing it with greatmotives.
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They all was doing it for thebenefit of Riley.
They both had the same goal inmind.
They had this moment where theywere showing all of the things
that Joy was doing to basicallycontrol who Riley would be.
They show where she got rid ofall of the unwanted memories and
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how she toast them on theone-way express and how Joy was
saying she's a good person andthat good girl.
They were showing all thesepast things that had happened to
show how Joy was also trying tocontrol who Riley was being.
But Joy's way of doing it wasmaking Riley a good person.
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So she thought it was okaybecause she was making Riley a
good person and in her makingRiley a good person and her
trying to suppress all of thoseunwanted memories and all those
hurtful times anddisappointments and those
feelings and shortcomings andtrying to be a perfect girl, a
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good girl, a good person all ofthat pressure and added stress
onigh to hold up some standard.
It created anxiety.
It made anxiety show up Becausein the midst of all of this,
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while all of this was going on,when anxiety was holding on to
that control board andcontrolling that control board,
raleigh was in the real world ather hockey game, on the
sideline, having a panic attack.
That's what was going on withRiley.
She was in the midst of havinga panic attack and you know what
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happened for her to stop havingthat panic attack.
It was when that light bulbcame on, for joy that she was
doing the same thing that shewas accusing anxiety of doing,
of trying to control who Rileywould be, even though her
motives were right.
But she was trying to controlRiley by only allowing her to
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keep the good memories, notallowing the bad memories, the
bad moments, the hurts, thedisappointments, the things that
would have a negative impact onher life, trying to get rid of
those things.
But all of those things make usinto who we are supposed to be.
Those things have to be a partof our core belief as well.
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So, in the midst of us, tryingto suppress those negative
things that happen in our lives,those things that hurt us,
those things that we didn't like, that didn't feel good, that we
didn't want, that we didn'tlike experiencing, but we want
the good.
All of that makes us into whowe are.
All of that shapes us into whowe are.
All of that shapes us into whowe are supposed to be.
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All of that creates the personthat you want to see looking
back at you in the mirror.
So when that light bulb came onfor Joy, she didn't change that
trophy out.
She let the core belief turninto what it was supposed to be
A combination of all of theemotions, all of the memories.
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So what Joy did?
She begins to hug that trophyand I hate to even keep calling
it a trophy, but that's what itlooks like.
She began to hug this trophyand when she hugs the trophy,
when she hugs the trophy, all ofthe emotions, other emotions
begin to run in Sadness, disgust, embarrassment, and all of them
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just begin to run in.
And the last one Joy looks overat anxiety on the floor.
I told you anxiety is still onthis floor.
She looks over at anxiety,anxiety comes in and they all
group hug.
And when they all begin togroup hug over this core beliefs
, trophy, this core belief.
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Who makes Riley who she is?
A mixture of the good and thebad, with all of the emotions.
All of these emotions make uswho we are, all of these
experiences make us who we are.
Remembering all of these thingsmake us who we are.
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Acknowledging them, feelingthem, experiencing them.
The anxiety attack ceases, itgoes away as they come out of
this huddle.
They look up at the controlboard and it says Joy, riley
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needs you.
Because throughout the movieit's like anxiety has taken over
and Joy is at a place becauseshe's hit puberty, she has all
these things going on, she'sallowed anxiety to kind of take
over her life and Joy is kind oftaking the back seat and Joy
feels like Riley doesn't needher anymore.
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So now things have shifted andthey end with this and they say
Joy, riley needs you.
So Joy goes over to the controlboard and she kind of takes
over and Riley finishes out hergame and all is well.
And that's the beautiful thing.
We don't have to suppress ouremotions.
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We don't have to suppress ouremotions, we don't have to
neglect and not acknowledge andact like the things that hurt us
or disappointed us or we didn'tlike.
We don't have to act like theydidn't happen and just portray
being a good girl or a good guyor a good person.
We can be all who God hascreated us to be the good and
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the bad.
It all shapes us into theperson that he has made us to be
.
So, y'all, this movie was good.
It was really good.
I'm going back to see it, totake my oldest daughter to see
it.
If you have not seen it yet, Idone.
Gave you so many spoilers.
I hope, if you stay this long,you have seen it.
If not, go see it.
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I mean, it's so good andthere's so many things, so many
things I didn't even talk about,so many things that I've left
out.
I hope you guys have enjoyedtoday's episode.
Remember I love you, but Godloves you so much more and I'll
see you guys next week.
Bye, I hope you guys haveenjoyed.
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Welcome to a new episode ofdemo with mo.
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I am your host, monique simmons.
Today we are going to bediscussing repressing emotions.
Spoiler alert.
Spoiler alert if you have notseen Out 2 yet, you may want to
pause this episode and come backto it later, because I will be
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discussing some things fromInside Out 2.
So, spoiler alert.
Now you have been warned.
I do not want to ruin it foryou.
It was an amazing movie and Ido not want to ruin it for you.
Today we will be discussingrepressing emotions, and what
does that have to do with InsideOut 2.
?
If you have seen it, you knowthe answer to this question, and
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if not, we're going to go aheadand jump right into it.
So this past weekend if you'relistening to this live this past
weekend, I took my youngestdaughter, miss Zoe, to see
Inside Out 2.
And for those of you who know,I have an older daughter as well
, a teenage daughter.
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The plan was to take heroriginally, but she was out of
town for a basketball tournamentwith her dad.
So I had to take baby girlbecause she had saw the previews
of it while we were previouslyseeing another movie and I
promised that I would take herand if I'm being honest, don't
you guys tell her this but Iwanted to go see it by myself.
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I had heard so many greatthings about it.
I heard a lot of things aboutthis new character anxiety, so I
really wasn't sure how I wasgoing to do for a four-year-old.
But it worked out very well.
She watched the first 45minutes to an hour and she ended
up falling asleep after eatinga junk load of popcorn, so it
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worked out very well for me.
Inside Out 2,.
I highly recommend this movie,highly recommend.
And if you have teenage noteven just teenage daughters,
even though the main characterin the story who's a teenage
girl?
Her name is Riley, even thoughthe main character is Riley a
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young lady, I even recommend youtaking your teenage young sons,
if you have them.
I really recommend this movie.
I do.
And even if you don't havechildren, I recommend you going
to see this by yourself.
This is a great date nightmovie as well.
Hear me out, hear me out.
I know it's not the mostromantic, it ain't nothing.
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You probably gonna be booed upor cuddled up watching, but I
promise it's a great discussionstarter to have in your
relationship.
I plan on having some comboswith my husband about it soon.
It's just great overall tointend across the board from me.
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Seriously, I thought it was sogood I wanted to come and talk
about it with you guys.
On the podcast episode, the maincharacter, riley.
She is becoming a teenager andshe is now experiencing some new
emotions and some new emotionsare coming on the scene.
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A few of the new emotionsthat's coming on, one of the
main ones that everybody wastalking about, and they talked
about it so much that evenbefore I went and saw the movie
for myself, I was thinking thatit was going to be like the only
one that they kind of focusedon the whole entire movie.
But that wasn't the case.
So I just want if you felt likeme, I just want to let you know
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that is not the case.
They're going to also talkabout other emotions, but
anxiety was talked about so much.
I was thinking that was theonly emotion that they were
going to focus on.
So anxiety is one of theemotions that was new on the
scene.
They had embarrassment, theyhad boredom, and there were a
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few others and Joy, who I'm justgoing to go ahead and say I
relate to so much.
I mean, so many people wererelating to anxiety and again, I
kept hearing about anxiety, somuch and so many people talking
about it.
But when I went and saw themovie for myself, the person
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that kept that I kept relatingto, that stood out to me was Joy
.
Like Joy was like girl, you,you, you understand me like Joy
had a moment in the movie whereshe like, kind of like, goes off
on the other emotions, the oneswho've been there.
The originals is the otheremotions, the ones who've been
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there.
The originals is what I callthem, the ones who've been there
from the beginning.
And I'm not going to give youguys everything, because if
you're still listening to thisand you haven't seen it, I
really want you to go see it.
I'm not going to give youeverything, everything.
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But she has this moment withthem when they're searching for
the back of Riley's mind andthey're getting lost and she's
getting frustrated and with joy,she's always optimistic, she's
always believing for the best,hoping for the best.
That's just who she is.
She's joy, her emotion, is joy.
She's always going to try tobelieve the best.
She's always has a smell on herface.
That's just who she is.
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That's what she embodies,that's her character, that is
her emotions.
That's who she is.
But she has this moment wherethey're all getting so
frustrated and they begin tolike, try to like, tear her down
, basically Like you don't knowwhat you're doing, we're lost,
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you know cause?
She's like the leader,unspokenly, like she's the
leader, the leader of the bunch,and they're following her and
you know they've been followingher along this whole day and
they're trying to figure thisthing out.
And she doesn't have it alltogether, but she's trying,
she's always continuing to try.
And they begin to say all ofthese negative things and Joy
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gets to the point where she hasenough and she said do you know
how hard it is to always try tobe optimistic, to always try to
see the good?
Basically and I'm just this ismy summarization and she's just
like do you know how hard thatis?
You think, because I'm joy,that it's just easy being joy.
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Do you think this is just easy?
To always try to see the good,to always believe for the best.
Do you think this is easy?
So that scene.
My daughter is asleep by thistime Because everybody was on
social media and TikTok and Iwas seeing all the videos and
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commentary.
After I saw the movie, peoplewere having all the commentaries
and videos about how they feltand who stood out to them and
who they related to andeverybody was saying how, at the
end there is a specific partwith anxiety and that was the
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piece that stood out to a lot ofpeople.
But for me, because I relatedto joy, it was the part where
joy finally like had enough ofall of their negativity and all
of their negative comments ather, even though she was
continuing to try over and overand over and be optimistic over
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and over and over and try to seethe best and believe the best
over and over and over againwhere it was like she had had
enough the bits over and overand over again, where it was
like she had had enough I.
That was the part that like,yes, joy, yes, joy, I I feel you
joy, because I felt her, likeso many people, had that, that
revelation in that moment wherethey could relate to some
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emotion in that movie, becausethat was a beautiful thing.
It was so many emotions and somany different characters that I
don't care where you are in theworld, who you are, what you've
been through, what you'veexperienced, what age you are.
It's some emotion that you canrelate to.
There was disgust, there wassadness.
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I mean there were so manydifferent, different emotions.
There's going to be one thatstands out for you, that's going
to make you be like yes, that'sme, that's where I am, that's
how I feel.
You get me, you understand me.
And for me, that was joy.
I felt joy, I understood joy, Irelated to joy, and this is not
even what this episode.
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I just went on a whole rantabout that because that's how
good this movie was.
You guys, you have to go see it.
You have to go see it, you haveto go see it.
You have to go see it.
But we're talking aboutrepressing emotions.
So one of the things that wasgoing on with Joy Riley would
have.
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Just like any of us in life,we're human.
We have beautiful moments inour lives great times with our
families, happy moments, thingsthat make us laugh, great things
.
We all love times like that.
But also with life, you havesad moments, times where you're
disappointed, you're hurt,you're disgusted, you're let
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down, somebody does something tohurt your feelings, or you may
not pass a test, or someone diesin your life, or you just
experience things that are notso good or don't feel so good.
And I know some of you arelistening today and you're like,
yeah, you know, and some of youmay be even experiencing some
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of those things that I just saidright now.
Or you have experienced them oryou will one day, because
that's life, we're human andthat's part of life.
The issue was in this movie withJoy, what Joy would doiley
experienced the the not so goodthings, the unwanted, the
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unwanted memories.
Joy would get rid of them.
And joy's way of getting rid ofthem?
She invented this one-waymechanism to like shoot.
They had, like these balls.
It shaped like a ball and itwas different colors.
And for the unwanted memories,the bad things, the negative
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experiences, they were orangeand this is very important
because each ball was a color,but these negative experiences,
these unwanted memories, theywere orange.
So what Joy would do aftergetting a good amount of orange
balls because all of us aregoing to have a good amount of
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orange balls or unwantedmemories or experiences in our
lives, things that hurt us,disappoint us.
We're going to experience that.
But after Riley would get a goodamount of these things to
happen, what Joy would do shewould gather it all, gather them
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all up, gather all thesememories all up, and she would
shoot them off in this littleinvention that she created, on
this one-way express, like thislittle tube that would shoot the
memories off, and it'sspecifically you specifically
need to know.
It's one way, because theycan't come back.
Once she shoots them off,they're gone, they're.
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They're gone, basically forever.
So joy kept all of the goodthings, all of the pleasant
things, all of the happymemories, but she got rid of all
of the unwanted memories,anything that would remind Riley
of anything bad that everhappened in her life.
She would get rid of all ofthese things, and her reason for
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doing this?
She didn't want it to be a partof Riley's core memory, her
core memory being the thingsthat made her who she was, like
her core values, the person thatshe would come to be, those
things that make you who you are, those things that make me
Monique, those memories, thosethings that I vividly remember
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from my life, that make me who Iam, that make me believe the
way I believe, the values that Ihave, the morals that I have,
the things that make me who I am.
So joy would get rid of all ofthese things.
So Riley hits puberty.
And when Riley hits puberty thenew emotions that I told you
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guys about in the beginning ofthe episode they pop up on the
scene.
And one of those emotions wasguess who?
Anxiety, the one I told youeverybody has been talking about
, and I'm sure you've heardabout Anxiety by now.
This movie has been out for alittle while now, so I'm sure
you've heard about good oldAnxiety by now.
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And guess what color MissAnxiety is?
She is orange, very important,because remember I told you the
color of the unwanted memoriesthat Joy kept shooting off on
the one-way expressway they wereorange.
So guess who's orange, littleold Miss Anxiety.
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So these unwanted memories thatyou were trying to get rid of,
that you didn't want to be apart of her, that you were
trying to suppress of, that youdidn't want to be a part of her,
that you were trying tosuppress, because I told you
guys, we're talking aboutsuppressed emotions.
You only wanted her to rememberthe good things, but you didn't
want her to remember the sadthings, the things that hurt her
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, that disappointed her.
You basically wanted tosuppress those emotions.
Does that sound familiar to you?
Have you ever done that?
You don't allow yourself tofeel because you, you know we're
not joy.
We don't have an inventionwhere we can just shoot off the
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bad things that have happened tous, the things we wish we
couldn't remember anymore.
But we can suppress them.
We cannot allow ourselves tofeel those things.
We don't talk about them, wedon't acknowledge them, we act
like it didn things.
We don't talk about them, wedon't acknowledge them, we act
like it didn't happen.
We don't deal with it.
We just want to be what Joykept saying.
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Raleigh's a good girl,raleigh's a good person.
That's what Raleigh kept saying.
And even her parents keptinsinuating and kept saying to
her you're such a good girl,you're such a good girl.
They kept saying that to herover and over, like throughout,
even when they show likememories from the past and in
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different scenes in the moviethey would say you're such a
good girl, you're my good girl.
They kept on saying it and Joywould say that you know, I take
such good care of the otheremotions would tell Joy, you
take such good care of Riley andRiley, you're such a good girl
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and you're a good person.
And Riley would say you knowwhat Riley would say to herself
You're a good person, you're agood person.
So that's from suppressing allof those unwanted emotions.
You only want to rememberwhat's good, so you only want to
do what's good because you wantto be a good person.
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Your parents saying you're agood girl, the emotions inside
of you that, the ones that's notbeing suppressed are telling
you to be good.
So you're putting this pressureon yourself to be good.
Now I got to show up in life asthis good girl the pressure of
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my family, the pressure atschool, the pressure with
extracurricular activities,because now Riley is playing for
a hockey team and his coachthis coach sees her from the
high school team and she isimpressed by Riley and invites
her and her friends.
And now she has the pressure oftrying to make this high school
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team and I'm a good person andI'm a good girl and I'm a good
team player and I'm good, I'mgood, I'm good, I'm good.
And now she's beginning to dealwith anxiety because I told you
she got this new emotion on thescene, all of these feelings and
all of these bad, unwantedmemories that Joy was
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suppressing, that Joy wasgetting rid of.
So Riley was never able to dealwith him.
She was never able to face themand work through them and
confront them.
She only suppressed them andignored them and didn't
acknowledge them.
So you know whatxiety showed upon the scene and anxiety began
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to take over Riley's life.
So where once Joy was kind ofdriving the seat, anxiety came
and took over.
Anxiety got rid of all of Joyand her team.
So anxiety got rid of all ofthem, or attempted to anyway.
So I'm not going to get intoall of that.
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But what anxiety does?
Anxiety begins to come on thescene and with anxiety, anxiety
would think about all of thethings that could happen in the
future.
So it's not even happening,it's not real, it's not
happening in real time, in themoment.
Anxiety would think about allof the things that could happen.
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Anxiety would literally thinkabout 50 different scenarios of
what could happen in Riley'slife and she would try to work
every scenario of what couldhappen in all 50 scenarios.
That's how anxiety works.
Anxiety doesn't go by what'sreal and what's happening now.
But let me solve what couldhappen.
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And what could happen is 50different things and I need to
solve all 50 things.
So anxiety begins to take over.
And anxiety didn't like joy,because joy says well, that's
not happening right now and itmight not happen, so let's not
worry about that if that's nothappening.
But anxiety is like no, no,that's not how we're doing it
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anymore.
She's getting ready to go tohigh school and she needs us now
.
We can't do it the way you'vebeen doing it anymore.
Okay, so fast forward, anx.
Anxiety takes over and thingsbegin to fall apart in Riley's
life because she can't beperfect.
She can't be this good girlthat she kept telling herself
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that she was this good person.
And it's the same for us.
We can't be good, perfect, getit all right.
That's not how it works.
So Joy and her friends, theother emotions, the originals
they begin to try to save Riley.
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They see how everything isfalling apart and they begin to
try to save Riley.
And I mentioned to you guysearlier how they were trying to
get to try to save Riley and Imentioned to you guys earlier
how they were.
They were trying to get to backto the back of Riley's mind so
they could take over and getanxiety up out of there and how
joy basically went off on theother emotions.
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Okay, so they went through allof that and and they get back to
the main center.
There's so many things thathappen, I'm not telling you.
I'm getting to the point ofrepressing emotions.
They get back to the maincenter and anxiety has lost her
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mind, literally.
It looks like because she'sgoing so fast and working
through so many scenarios andtrying to do like a million
things at crazy speeds, like itlooks like a tornado is going
through the main room thatthey're in and all of the
emotions, even the new emotionsthat came in with anxiety,
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they're all worried aboutanxiety.
They're all looking at her likesomebody needs to get her
because anxiety is controllingthe control board.
There's a control board that,whichever emotion is touching
the control board, this is theemotion that Riley is reflecting
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in her life.
So if joy is touching thecontrol board, riley is
reflecting joy in her life.
That's how she's presentingherself in life.
If disgust is touching theboard, riley is reflecting
disgust.
Maybe she ate somethingdisgusting and she didn't like
it.
That disgust would be on thecontrol board.
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So this is how the controlboard works.
Well, anxiety is on the boardand anxiety is losing it.
She is going around thatcontrol board like a tornado.
She's touching every piece ofboard and it literally looks
like she is a tornado.
Have you ever seen a Tasmaniadevil?
This is what anxiety looks likegoing around this board.
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Every time somebody tries toget close to her, it knocks them
back.
That's how fast she is going.
Well, after attempting multipletries, joy finally gets in.
Now this is the scene of themovie that everybody has talked
about.
Everybody has talked about itand you have probably heard it
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from different perspectives.
You probably heard it from theemotional side, the scientific
side, even from Christians andbelievers.
They wanted to shout in thetheater.
I'm just telling you.
You probably heard it fromeverybody's point of view.
Okay, so this scene is when Joyfinally gets into anxiety at the
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control board, and it's.
You can still see anxietywhipping around the control
board, whipping, whipping,whipping, but anxiety is stuck.
She's stuck at the controlboard, even though it's still
going insanely crazy around her.
She's stuck at the board andshe can't let go.
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She's holding on so tight tothe board, trying to control
Riley's life.
She don't want things to fallapart, even things that aren't
happening.
She wants to control everythingthe future, what could happen?
Because that's how anxiety isworking.
You're worried about everyoutcome.
What is what could happen?
Because that's how anxiety isworking.
You're worried about everyoutcome.
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What is what ain't what couldbe?
Anxiety is just she's stuck,she just can't let go.
She's stuck in a zone.
She can't hear what's going onoutside of her, she can't see
what's going on, she's juststuck in a zone.
Well, joy gets in there and Joysays anxiety, you got to let go
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.
And anxiety doesn't hear.
And Joy says anxiety, and y'allI'm paraphrasing, you got to
see it for yourself.
It's just so much, it's just somuch.
Joy calls her name anxiety andat this point, joy, it's like
Joy's breathing slows down orsomething Like everything slows
down.
Joy was like Anxiety.
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I think that's why theChristians got so excited at
this point.
And when she says it, a tearbegins to fall out Anxiety's eye
.
This is like the moment whereshe finally hears Joy and Joy
said you have to let her go.
And anxiety lets the board go.
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And they're finally able to dothat.
They were trying to add thispiece to the machine that made
Raleigh's core beliefs, that isa whole thing.
But it was this pieceigh's corebeliefs, that is a whole thing.
But it was this piece for hercore beliefs Because you
remember when I told you guysearlier when I started out, how
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Joy would get rid of theunwanted memories, the bad
things, because she didn't wantthose unwanted memories to
become a part of Raleigh's corebeliefs, which is what makes us
who we are and what we believe,why we believe our values, just
makes us the individual that weare our core beliefs.
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So something that I left outthat's important when anxiety
went into the control board, shebroke the core belief like but
it looked like a little trophyis what it looks like and
anxiety broke it because shewent and started adding those
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unwanted memories that joy gotrid of.
She went and got those unwantedmemories that Joy originally
got rid of and started addingthem to to Riley's core belief
and it created this new littletrophy of core beliefs because
now it had it.
It had the unwanted memoriesthat Joy never wanted there.
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So when Joy got back to thecontrol room and got anxiety to
let go of the control board, sheput the original trophy back
and I'm sure y'all trophy is notwhat it's called, but you know,
rock with me, rock with me.
She put the original trophyback of the core beliefs, the
one that she originally had,with just a good memory.
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She got rid of the one thatanxiety put up there, okay.
So anxiety is laid out on thefloor.
She's tired, anxiety has beenall over it, like she's been
worried and stressed out and youcould just tell they just
portrayed this so well Likeshe's literally on the floor out
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of breath and she's talking.
But you well, like she'sliterally on the floor, out of
breath and she's talking, butyou can tell she's like talking
barely with any breath.
This is how she's talking.
And she says to joy, as joy'sgetting ready to replace the
trophy back the way itoriginally was, she tells Joy,
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she says I'm so sorry, I wasonly trying to protect Riley,
which is what anxiety was tryingto do.
She was only trying to protectRiley.
And she says you're right, wecan't control who Riley will be.
And it was at that moment.
It was at that moment where Joyrealized the same thing she had
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just accused anxiety of doingby telling her to let her go you
can't control who Riley wouldbe.
She realized that that momentthey have this moment, like you
can tell where the light bulbcame on and all of these past
memories come up for joy, whereit showed, like all of the
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things that she had been doingin the past to control Riley,
who Riley would be.
Even though she's Joy, Eventhough she's doing it in a
positive way, basicallyprotecting Riley, the same way
anxiety was protecting Riley.
They're all doing it with greatmotives.
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They all was doing it for thebenefit of Riley.
They both had the same goal inmind.
They had this moment where theywere showing all of the things
that Joy was doing to basicallycontrol who Riley would be.
They show where she got rid ofall of the unwanted memories and
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how she toast them on theone-way express and how Joy was
saying she's a good person andthat good girl.
They were showing all thesepast things that had happened to
show how Joy was also trying tocontrol who Riley was being.
But Joy's way of doing it wasmaking Riley a good person.
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So she thought it was okaybecause she was making Riley a
good person and in her makingRiley a good person and her
trying to suppress all of thoseunwanted memories and all those
hurtful times anddisappointments and those
feelings and shortcomings andtrying to be a perfect girl, a
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good girl, a good person all ofthat pressure and added stress
onigh to hold up some standard.
It created anxiety.
It made anxiety show up Becausein the midst of all of this,
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while all of this was going on,when anxiety was holding on to
that control board andcontrolling that control board,
raleigh was in the real world ather hockey game, on the
sideline, having a panic attack.
That's what was going on withRiley.
She was in the midst of havinga panic attack and you know what
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happened for her to stop havingthat panic attack.
It was when that light bulbcame on, for joy that she was
doing the same thing that shewas accusing anxiety of doing,
of trying to control who Rileywould be, even though her
motives were right.
But she was trying to controlRiley by only allowing her to
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keep the good memories, notallowing the bad memories, the
bad moments, the hurts, thedisappointments, the things that
would have a negative impact onher life, trying to get rid of
those things.
But all of those things make usinto who we are supposed to be.
Those things have to be a partof our core belief as well.
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So, in the midst of us, tryingto suppress those negative
things that happen in our lives,those things that hurt us,
those things that we didn't like, that didn't feel good, that we
didn't want, that we didn'tlike experiencing, but we want
the good.
All of that makes us into whowe are.
All of that shapes us into whowe are.
All of that shapes us into whowe are supposed to be.
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All of that creates the personthat you want to see looking
back at you in the mirror.
So when that light bulb came onfor Joy, she didn't change that
trophy out.
She let the core belief turninto what it was supposed to be
A combination of all of theemotions, all of the memories.
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So what Joy did?
She begins to hug that trophyand I hate to even keep calling
it a trophy, but that's what itlooks like.
She began to hug this trophyand when she hugs the trophy,
when she hugs the trophy, all ofthe emotions, other emotions
begin to run in Sadness, disgust, embarrassment, and all of them
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just begin to run in.
And the last one Joy looks overat anxiety on the floor.
I told you anxiety is still onthis floor.
She looks over at anxiety,anxiety comes in and they all
group hug.
And when they all begin togroup hug over this core beliefs
, trophy, this core belief.
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Who makes Riley who she is?
A mixture of the good and thebad, with all of the emotions.
All of these emotions make uswho we are, all of these
experiences make us who we are.
Remembering all of these thingsmake us who we are.
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Acknowledging them, feelingthem, experiencing them.
The anxiety attack ceases, itgoes away as they come out of
this huddle.
They look up at the controlboard and it says Joy, riley
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needs you.
Because throughout the movieit's like anxiety has taken over
and Joy is at a place becauseshe's hit puberty, she has all
these things going on, she'sallowed anxiety to kind of take
over her life and Joy is kind oftaking the back seat and Joy
feels like Riley doesn't needher anymore.
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So now things have shifted andthey end with this and they say
Joy, riley needs you.
So Joy goes over to the controlboard and she kind of takes
over and Riley finishes out hergame and all is well.
And that's the beautiful thing.
We don't have to suppress ouremotions.
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We don't have to suppress ouremotions, we don't have to
neglect and not acknowledge andact like the things that hurt us
or disappointed us or we didn'tlike.
We don't have to act like theydidn't happen and just portray
being a good girl or a good guyor a good person.
We can be all who God hascreated us to be the good and
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the bad.
It all shapes us into theperson that he has made us to be
.
So, y'all, this movie was good.
It was really good.
I'm going back to see it, totake my oldest daughter to see
it.
If you have not seen it yet, Idone.
Gave you so many spoilers.
I hope, if you stay this long,you have seen it.
If not, go see it.
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I mean, it's so good andthere's so many things, so many
things I didn't even talk about,so many things that I've left
out.
I hope you guys have enjoyedtoday's episode.
Remember I love you, but Godloves you so much more and I'll
see you guys next week.
Bye, I hope you guys haveenjoyed.
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Follow me on Facebook at Demowith Mo.
If you have any questions youwould like answered here live on
my podcast, email them to me atdemow with mo at gmailcom.
That's D-E-M-O-W-I-T-H-M-O atgmailcom.
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