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Y'all, Inside Out 2 threw me for a whole loop. If you have not seen that movie, you should

see that movie. If you haven't seen Inside Out One, watch Inside Out

One before you watch Inside Out Two. But I'm so grateful that we can have basically like three to six

months worth of therapy in two movies and only pay under $20 for it. If you have not seen one and two,

go see them both. But in Inside Out two, y'all, anxiety was losing her mind. And there's this scene where she, because of anxiety,

wants to control everything. And her control spins out of control, so much so that she is spinning

and can't stop the spinning. She just is going in figure eights and she can't

stop. And everybody outside of her is looking at like, oh my gosh, she's having a whole experience.

And she cannot stop herself. And we're going to have to intervene. For some of us, that is worry,

for some of that is control. For some of it of it is working too hard. For some of it is

pleasuring too hard. There's something in our lives that left to our own devices. We cannot

stop. When you cannot stop feeling anxious and operating from an anxious place, it can throw

your whole life out of whack. So on Inside Out too, she doesn't just show us what anxiety is. She shows us

what happens when anxiety hijacks somebody's emotional overall well-being. And then the anxiety

feeds itself and you have to have it interrupted from the inside out literally or from the

outside in. Someone else, maybe it's a therapist,

maybe it's a friend. People see you spiraling out and they have to say, wake up, girl, uh-uh,

we're not going to do that today. Or sometimes it's medicine or sometimes it is someone who loves

you, like literally saying it's okay, like they're shaking you awake. Sometimes we have to do this

with children, right? I've had children that are throwing a tantrum on the floor or they're so worried.

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