🧡 Frantic & Flowing: The Orange Thread of Pride

Feeling frantic? You’re not alone, lovebug. This episode dives headfirst into the whirlwind of anxiety and floats us gently into the calm waters of serenity. 🧘‍♂️🍊  

James takes the mic and the metaphorical magnifying glass to the buzzing energy we all feel in a world that never sleeps. Think buzzing brain meets honeyed heart. From Inside Out’s frizzy-haired Anxiety to the sacred sweetness of slowing down, this episode offers breath, balance, and a bicep-flexing reminder that movement isn’t always progress—and stillness isn’t failure.  

With journaling joy, fitness freakouts, tech detox tips, and a mental-health makeover that’ll melt your Monday nerves, this one’s for anyone trying to trade panic for presence.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hello, friends, So happy to have you here with me
today at Radical Joy. If you've been here before, welcome back.
If this is your first time with me, well I'm
glad you're here. Each week, I'm here with you talking
to myself about things that weigh on my mind and heart,
hoping if you're dealing with something similar, we can adjust
our perspectives as you listen. Hey, if you're struggling with

(00:31):
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us here at COLW Studios believe that mental health is
a vital part of our well being. The more people
I meet and the more places I go, the more

(00:52):
I realize how important it is to make people aware
of the fact that there is no shame in enjoying
the parts of our lives that are incredible. It's time
for some radical Joy, and this week, the three fingers
pointing back at me are for the color orange, represented
in this episode by Anxiety and Serenity, part two of

(01:12):
a seven part series here on Radical Joy for Pride Month.
If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend seeing
the movie inside out in as many of those episodes
you can get. I know at the time of filming
there are at least two. And it's interesting to watch

(01:34):
how as Riley's emotions sort of deepen and evolve as
she grows older and her needs become a little bit
more intricate, that we get introduced to new characters. And
one part that I love about this is Anxiety is
this young, kind of frenetic character and they are orange

(02:01):
and freezy haired, trying to keep in control of literally everything.
And it seems that this character is one of the
largest problems in Riley's life. It continues to make a problem,
It continues to set everyone on edge, it continues to
restrict some of her healthier more I don't want to

(02:25):
say base, but I think some of her simpler emotions,
and it continues to bottle them up or press, etc.
And what we see in the end is I don't
want to ruin the movie for anyone, but it doesn't
go well by letting Anxiety drive the whole machine. So
while we're looking at that, what I would love to

(02:46):
say is that this episode is dedicated to anxiety and
the compliment to this emotion at least for this episode,
is going to be serenity. I hesitate to call it
an opposite. What I'd like to do is say that
the two of these together work to make a hole,

(03:08):
and they do feel as though they are on opposite
sides of a coin. But I think they probably work
together in a lot of ways that we're not really
attuned or used to thinking about. And so let's just explore.
Let's le's chat about it for a little while. What
do you say in the Year of Our Lord twenty
twenty five. I think anxiety, especially among Americans, is a

(03:30):
major driving force in a lot of our emotions. They
take up a very just an enormous put a part
of the pie for whatever reason. I have a pie
chart in my head now, and I'm thinking that there
is a sliver cut out for all of the others,
and anxiety is a lion's share of this pie. And

(03:53):
what I'd like to do is just sort of investigate
a little bit on that. Personally, I deal with mine
with things like journaling and study reading. I work out often.
I've got a gem appointment today in about four hours,
and it's one of those things where I continue to

(04:14):
find avenues so that this energy. We use the word
for netek earlier, and I like that a lot. It
feels rushed without anywhere to go. It builds an uncomfortable
feeling inside with little to no reason, and it tends
to bleed onto other aspects of life, and it seems

(04:38):
to make those move faster with no need unnecessary quickness,
and we have to be super mindful of that because
it is really easy to do that. I have a
to do list here to my right, and I rewrite
it almost every day because I don't know. It makes

(04:58):
me feel good. For one thing. The old one is
all crumply and stupid, and it's got a lot of
things that are scribbled off, and I need to make
sure that the new one is at least a little cleaner.
I can make the new one without the things I've
already taken off, and I can add a couple more
that may have popped up overnight or oh I forgot
about that. It happens. It's absolutely fine, and as I

(05:21):
work on it through the day, there are parts of
me that just get anxious about it. It's like, Ooh,
I didn't get this done today. Did I do enough
work on this? Item. Oh no, no, no, no, no. All
of these things come together to sort of rev me
up into a a state that has a little bit
more kinetic energy in it than is warranted. And so

(05:44):
what I have to do is kind of breathe through it.
Something wonderful that I have remembered and started applying more
regularly to literally everything that I do. I say, Okay,
I can't think about what I haven't done. What I
can't do is look at all of the days that
have passed without me working on X project or the

(06:08):
progress I should have been doing up to this point
and just did not. Instead of getting anxious about those
kinds of things, what I do is I look at
it and I said, okay, great, starting from now today,
this exact moment, we're moving forward with this project and
it's going to be fine. And I cannot tell you

(06:30):
the kind of productivity I have regained from that one
little thing. Whether it is your fitness journey or your
nutritional journey, or your relationship or your job or something
like that, there's nothing in the world that says you
have to carry all of the stuff that happened from

(06:51):
before to now. What we can do is pick up
the ball from where we're standing on the field and
run with it from there. I can't mourn what I
have let get by me. What I can do is
make a promise to myself that I'm gonna pick up
the ball and run from where I stand right here

(07:12):
now today and do the very best I can with it.
It's a practice. It's one of those things where we
have to practice to perfect, and that's fine. I'm gonna
give myself the grace to do that because it has
made things infinitely easier for looking at something and saying, Okay,
today's the day we do that. I'm not worried about

(07:32):
how long it's been on the list or how many
times I've written it over the past days, weeks, however long.
Today is the day I make progress on this and
hopefully get it done super I cannot tell you how
helpful that has been to me. And you know, maybe
you're one of those people who doesn't need that kind
of help. Wonderful. My heart goes out to you. Well

(07:52):
done you. I am thrilled for you. As for me
and my other people over here, sometimes we need some
hacks hints, and that's one that's been really good for
me and how that has helped me is in that
has changed that anxious energy into a serenity by the
day's end that makes me rest easier at night, which

(08:16):
helps me go put more of myself into the other
things in my life, like workouts or times with friends,
or times with people that I have grown to love,
et cetera. It gives me a freedom in those sorts
of things where I can enjoy it more fully instead
of worrying about what I didn't get done on my list,
because I did or I made some really great headway

(08:38):
or progress, and so this time that I get to
use as a fullness in my life is now exactly
that it doesn't have the shadow of something over it
that I didn't get done. What it does is leaves
me more free to enjoy those times because I did
make progress and I'm feeling pretty proud about it. Serenity

(09:01):
is one of those things. I think. Serenity is a practice,
and anxious is what happens when we don't practice, you know,
for any and all of my musicians out there, if
you don't practice, you know, daily, it tends to fall
into disrepair. If you don't practice. I played trumpet and

(09:24):
baritone or euphonium for years, and if I practice just
a little every day, you know, between fifteen minutes, thirty minutes,
maybe even an hour, if I was being super on
top of my business, the amount of improvement I would
make would boggle my mind. It's like, oh wow, those
notes are really easier to hit. I remember whenever I

(09:46):
was rehearsing for all state band auditions, my mom came
into my bedroom to wake me or whatever, and she
said that I was blowing my horn in my sleep,
and my fingers were moving to the mouth to the
fingerings on the horn because part of the audition was
playing scales, including the majors, the miners, melodics, etc. And

(10:10):
she came in and she said, bless your heart, you
had practiced so much that you were doing it in
your sleep. And there are parts of my life that
I would love love to be on that kind of autopilot.
I have rehearsed them so much that even when I
am resting, I am still working and improving and growing

(10:32):
and evolving. Right that the fact that even in my sleep,
and I'll be honest, it felt like a very RESTful sleep.
I don't remember any time in high school where I
didn't have incredibly RESTful sleep. Even now as an adult,
I can fall asleep at the drop of a hat. Now,
staying asleep that's a little trick here, but falling asleep
no problem. What I would love is these things that

(10:55):
I know work in my favor to make me a bigger, better, stronger,
kind human being. I would love to rehearse them so
frequently to a level of proficiency that what I can
do is that even when I am sleeping, my mind
is continuing to work on these things so that I

(11:16):
can wake up even better. I think that what's going
to happen is that while I sleep, the work that
I have done is going to be integrated into my processors.
You know, it's gonna be one of those things where
it literally just becomes part of my genetics. My DNA
is going to have those little threads built into it,
into the double helix to say, yeah, this right here

(11:39):
and this is where you know, this is where we
stay calm, cool and collected instead of getting anxious or
freaked out about something that we have well in hand.
It's funny. There are several things, big things that are
coming up for me in the next few weeks and
by the time you hear this, more than likely many

(12:00):
of them will already be finished. But to think that
I am a cool cucumber about any of it at
this moment would be hilarious. I am freaking out about
things that I know that I could do in my
sleep if I just breathed, found that center, look for

(12:22):
and cultivate my own serenity, and have the confidence and
faith to know that all of these things are well
in hand. Here's the fun part. How many times, especially performers, etc.
Throw a hand in the air unless you need both
hands for driving your bicycle. To show me, if you
had just relaxed, if you had just trusted that you

(12:44):
had whatever it was you needed to have well in hand,
how much better you would have done on said task, performance, presentation, discussion,
any of these kind of things if you had just
approached it with a solid, centered, serene confidence instead of

(13:07):
allowing your anxiety and fear and lack of your own
skill or fortitude to lead you into the fray to
completely sort your business right. It's whenever I get scared,
whenever I start to get really nervous, anxious, excitable, whenever

(13:29):
things go sideways, whenever I forget my lyrics, whenever I
forget my lines, whenever I go up on a certain
amount of a segment of a presentation or talk that
I'm giving. Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course, And whenever I
just let the bravado of Bullard take the lead and

(13:51):
walk right through the fire. Yeah, I might get some
singe around the eyebrow and maybe you know, a little
ash on my fingertips. Cool. You know what I didn't do.
I didn't stand still long enough to let it reduce
me to ash. I walked out of that lack a targarian. Okay,

(14:13):
to give us a little game of throne reference. We've
hit some Disney and now we got got up at it. Congratulations.
Oh my god, all these folks are gonna come after
me for copyright. I apologize, I promise It's all good,
and I haven't sworn once during this episode yet. So
the thing is, we got to continue to focus on
the things. What is it we do well? What is

(14:35):
the thing? What are the things? It doesn't have to
be just one thing. We got loads of folks out
there that are well within the range of my voice,
multi talented, rocking, the absolute ever loving, but Jesus out
of their lives great. Then whenever something large comes along,
like something that is potentially trajectory altering, we start to

(14:57):
get a little a little concern, right, We start to
get just a little bit nervous, and those nerves sort
of grow into an anxious and then that can turn
into something that turns into maybe a paralysis or a
stumbling block, or any number of things that if we

(15:20):
just treated it like it was another day at the offense,
that wouldn't be something that was enough to shake us
to our core or our foundations right exactly. So what
I would like to do is perhaps put us on
a way so that we can continue to look for
methods of maintaining serenity, cultivating it, growing it so that

(15:43):
whenever we start to feel a little bit more of
that frenetic energy, we can Basically the word I feel
is overwhelm it, but that feels a little harsh. What
I would like to do is maybe a overwhelming with
kindness or a submerge. That's what I think, because the

(16:04):
overwhelm that I feel, for whatever reason, has a very
specific aesthetic. It feels liquid. It feels as though the
anxiety needs sort of like a viscous liquid like a honey,
to sort of coat it and to slow it down
and to sweeten it so that instead of this very

(16:26):
sharp static electric feeling, sharpness, this this vibration, it feels
as though it's almost like a tremor that honey comes in.
And it's not a small amount either, it's quite a bit.
It's like a jar that we just overturn on top

(16:48):
of this anxious feeling that will coat all of those edges,
that will insulate that electric shock, that will slow that
tremor so that you can see it with more clear
lines instead of the blur that perhaps anxiety can put
on it. Right, and we're gonna warm it, and we're

(17:13):
gonna soften all those edges, and we're gonna sweeten it,
but very naturally, very nourishingly, okay, So that now instead
of this frenetic feeling, this this tremor, this rank unsurety
that lives inside us, we have coated it and we've

(17:34):
slowed it, and now we've warmed it and we've given
it more girth, is what we've done, because we put
several layers on the outside that provide that nourishment for it,
and now we can hold it. It's no longer something
dangerous to be contained. It is something nourishing to be held, Right,

(17:58):
isn't that a lovely thought that now I'm going to
use that serenity to have the confidence in myself that
whatever I'm facing that I can do so in confidence
and strength, instead of some sort of un hinged, shaking,

(18:20):
brittle something that leads me to believe that I'm not
well aware or well in control of whatever this is
that I'm about to face. We don't need to feel
like that. If you're listening to Radical Joy right now.
We're all on a journey to make ourselves better every day,
and chances are very good we're already really flipping cool, wonderful.

(18:45):
Why because we know that we need help, Because that
we know that we're still on our path and our journey.
We haven't reached the end, and hopefully I won't be
finished improving myself until they put me in the ground.
And here's a thing too, I don't know that I
want to be put in the ground. I think what
I would prefer is to just sort of be I.

(19:06):
I think I'm a cream ate kind of guy, and
then whenever we're done with that, what I'd love is
to put my remains around the roots of a tree.
Have y'all seen these pods? They have the thought of
putting me six feet under the ground after embalming, and YadA, YadA,
YadA sounds awful to me. Not that I'll care. I'll
be gone. It won't be me, It'll just be the
shell I leave behind. The thing is, I want to

(19:30):
continue to improve until the day that what's left of me.
Hopefully in everything that I do, I am serving to
feed people that I love that want to do better.
And when I am gone, I would like to continue
to feed and nourish something that will help others, whether
it's taking CO two out of the air or pumping

(19:52):
O two back into it. Yeah, ain't no reason why I,
when I shuffle off this mortal coil that's what is
left behind, can't still do some good. And I like
the thought of that. It makes me feel good. I
have no need for people to put flowers on a
headstone that hasn't held anything to do with me for

(20:14):
however long. Certainly don't want to put that kind of
expense on the people I leave behind. What I would
like to do is make sure that we continue to
glow and burn, and there's an idea of a phoenix
in there somewhere. I want you absolutely. Whenever this old
body just turns to nothing, at least the ashes can

(20:37):
still do something helpful, right, Yeah, I love that. So
to get back on track, the anxiety is something that
I think that plagues a lot of us. Everything is
on so much shorter a timeline, Our attention spans are
so much shorter. We've got those phones on our hand

(20:58):
twenty four to seven. It's ring and ding ding in
every other second with a notification about a text message
or a new email, or a notification from any number
of social media platforms that are screaming for our attention.
And it's just annoying. Because I work with it very closely,

(21:20):
so I know how bad it is for all of us,
and because I am so hyper aware of it. What
I would also like to say is there are times
where you can, especially if you've got all your loved
ones close and you don't need that thing for an hour,
put it on silent, put that sucker and do not disturb,
hide it, put it in a bag, put it under
the table. Da da da da da. Yes, that I

(21:46):
found that I do that a lot with a lot
of friends of mine. Now, granted, if we take a
bathroom break at any point, you can bet the first
thing I'm going to do is reach for that phone,
just to make sure that whatever other important human needs
to reach me that, by golly, I just got a check.
I'm working on it. I'm aware of it. And when

(22:06):
we're in conversation, when we're at the lunch table or
coffee or dinner or whatever it is that we're doing
to very specifically share our time in a focused manner,
one with another, that thing is either face down or
in a pocket, or in a bag or under something
somewhere where I don't have to look at it at all.

(22:26):
May God have mercy on my soul. One of my
producers for the band, he wanted a super noticeable notifier
whenever he got any kind of text message or whatever.
So on an iPhone you can set it so that
your flash will go off whenever you receive a text message.

(22:47):
And woe be unto me that I did that for him.
He loves it. It is the single most distracting and
annoying thing that I've seen in a minute other you know,
short of putting a siren on the phone. The good
news is at least it's silent. You know, it's just
incredibly bright and obnoxious, and he finds it very useful. Great.
My job was not to make it more calming. It

(23:09):
was to make something useful for him. And now he
has it super dupe great. And I took that sucker
off my phone. That's how he found out about it.
He saw it on my phone because I do keep
my phone on D and D so much, and I
was like, well, if somebody needs to text me or
somebody needs to call me for whatever reason, I really
need to make sure I get this notification for a
phone call or a text, especially if I'm expecting something

(23:31):
with an investment or you know, something financial. Da da
da dada. Great, wonderful. He saw it. I said it,
Oh my god, anxiety, Oh my gosh, are you kidding? Now?
Maybe not for him, because he can also put his
phone down really easily. He loves watching videos on Instagram
of bunnies and turtles and duckies and delicious great. He

(23:53):
is not an addict like I think many of us are.
He loves YouTube. I think also most of his things
are super highly educational, where some of my things are
just entertainment, funny, distract me from what I find very
harsh and awful in the world. Please and thank you,
super whatever it is that we've got, we have to
remain mindful of the fact that the more frequently we

(24:15):
flip or scroll or swipe or whatever, the shorter our
attention spans become, and the more apt we are to
be a victim of our own anxious habit. So what
do we do? We adopt other habits that's slow our
pace journaling. I timed it this morning. It took me

(24:37):
twenty seven minutes to write three pages of journal I
also have to make a conscious effort not to look
at the dang dang phone while I'm doing it. It
pulls me out of my zen. It completely disrupts my focus.
And the chances are good it won't be just a
check to see if someone wrote I'll scroll through five
to eleven minutes of TikTok videos. Oh that it's funny. No, no, no, no,

(25:01):
and the next thing, I know, have completely derailed my
practice to reduce my anxiety by journaling. Same thing with study.
I do my dual lingo every morning. And even though hey,
did anyone out there know that you can get to
the end of a dual lingo because I did. And
now it's just a maintenance program I do every morning

(25:24):
and I've got to get at least, like, you know,
fifteen twenty minutes in. And it's great because it continues
to push me to do better and I have to
literally conjure these phrases they give me an English into Dutch.
I'm like, oh my god, so difficult, so much more
difficult than any of the curriculum ever was. And I
think it's actually working better. And they give me timed bonuses.

(25:49):
They're like, congratulations, you'll get triple points for the next
ten minutes, meaning that as long as I stay focused
on my language learning for the next ten minutes, they'll
give me triple the points while I'm working, which also
dissuades me from moving on to other applications that are
far more entertaining and much less nourishing or improving than

(26:10):
my Duolingo. Why because it's trash and I have no
one to blame but me. My algorithms are trash. I
claim about seventy two percent of it for my own scrolling.
I also have twenty eight percent that I will one
hundred percent give to the depraved individuals who inhabit my dms,
who I love and would not change for anything. And

(26:34):
the stuff y'all send is warping the but Jesus out
of my algorithm for about twenty eight percent of it.
And when it does, it is so embarrassing to try
to have to search for anything in front of someone
who does not know me, because the things that pull
up in my search bar my god, my god. So

(26:55):
it is what it is. I accept it. It's just
part of being free friends with all of you, and
that is what it's going to be. I continue to
find things to work on my serenity. I go to
the gym and I beat myself to death because I
need it. My fitness is a priority. And while I'm

(27:16):
at the gym, a phone is not something I can
deal with. Number One, they don't allow earbuds, so I'm
not going to be that jerkstick who walks around with
his music playing off of his phone unless I literally
have the whole place to myself. B It's very class oriented.
So if I get there and it's time for class
and i'm checking in, my phone goes in the cubby
and it doesn't leave until I am weeping leaving the box. Okay,

(27:40):
just so we know, great wonderful focus, connection, serenity, it
doesn't look serene. It looks as though I'm about to
die a gruesome death more than once or twice over
in the hour we get to spend together. And what
that does is completely ring me wig of all of

(28:02):
the frenetic energy that I have left on a burpie
puddle of sweat in the middle of the gym floor,
or I've scraped it all off because I missed my
box jump again again. You just have to know what
it is and how most effectively you can rid yourself
of these kind of things. See what I'm saying. For

(28:25):
some people, it's gonna be something really cool and calm
and lovely, like lighting a candle and listening to soft music,
dimming the lights, giving yourself five minutes of alone time.
If you're dealing with a whole lot of other human beings,
just taking a minute. Great. Maybe it's that nasty workout
where at the end of your day where you just

(28:47):
had to deal with so much and you've had to
sit still for so long. The thing you need more
than anything is just to be physical, and you need
to be almost violent in it. I give you permission
if you need it, You've got it. Oh you gotta
do it. Listening to this sound of my voice and
understand you've got my permission to take your fitness to

(29:07):
levels that will help expunge all of this frenetic energy
from the person that you are, so you can refill
with something that is rounder, warmer, fuller, sweeter, more honey
less cheese its, How about that Does that work? Honey

(29:30):
is more of a gold, so cheese its are definitely
orange and if you eat those wrong, they will absolutely
poke you right in the top of the mouth with
all of those corners and awful. So that's what I
want to do. I want to clear your palate of
cheese its by flooding your mouth with honey, so that

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instead of all of that anxious energy, what we do
is we warm it and we full it and we
girth it with that honey, so that now instead of
that anxiety, you feel that serenity, calm, centered, warm, confident, amazing.

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Cavelde is the word in Dutch. If you need it,
so that you can move forward in this whole thing
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sided conversation to the fact that you had to holler
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