Choose Joyy Podcast
Based on the mood and habit tracking Joyyful Planner, the Choose Joyy podcast is focused on self alignment for those who struggle with anxiety. Through these unpredictable times, we’ve all experienced moments of self-doubt and uncertainty. By making a conscious effort to choose joy daily, we allow ourselves to heal and grow into the path destined for us. Join me weekly to unpack, affirm, and choose joy.
Choose Joyy Podcast
Into the Hundred Acre Wood...
Ever wondered why certain Disney characters resonate so deeply with you? In this heartwarming conversation, I'm joined by my Mama, Octavia (@DoinDisneymyWay), to unpack the surprising emotional intelligence lessons hidden within our favorite animated classics.
Disney movies offer profound insights into emotional intelligence when viewed through undistracted lenses. Looking beyond the entertainment, they serve as mirrors reflecting our complex emotions and teaching us about acceptance and community.
We begin by exploring the parallels between the imaginative world and our own emotional landscapes revealing something profound about human connection. As adults, we often lose touch with the emotional honesty we had as children, placing unrealistic expectations on ourselves and others.
This conversation will have you rethinking how you show up for yourself and others when sadness, fear, or anxiety takes the driver's seat. Because true friendship isn't about being perfectly put together, but about showing up anyway - honey pot and all.
Listen in and discover which character you relate to most, then ask yourself: who's at your emotional control panel today? And how can you extend that same compassionate understanding to your own crew?
Don't forget to text us to be featured on the next episode of Chels Chats!
Visit www.choosejoyy.com for more
You've made it to the Choose Joy podcast. Here we make a conscious effort to choose joy. Daily we allow ourselves to heal and grow into the path designed for us. Join me to unpack, affirm and choose joy. Hello, and welcome back, joyful babes, to another episode of Choose Joy. It's me, your host, chelsea, and today we got a guest none other than my mother, if you know her. You know octavia scott is a disney queen. So get cozy, grab a blanket, some tea or a honey pot, if you're feeling like winnie the Pooh, and let's dive in. Take a listen.
Speaker 2:So to know me is to know that I love all things Disney. I'm a full-blown Disney adult and I'm not ashamed of it. I have an Instagram and a TikTok page to prove it. I love going to the parks and I love watching Disney movies and having moments to look at them through non-distracted lenses, just to be able to watch a movie or even take a solo trip to the parks without the distractions that I had when I was attending the park or even watching movies. As a mom of four young girls, some of my favorite pastimes now not only listening to the songs in the car on my way to work, or definitely on my way to the park, but watching movies and noticing Easter eggs or researching to find the connection between one movie to the next or the other movie.
Speaker 2:An Easter egg, if you don't know, an Easter egg is what people call the hidden scenes or hidden breadcrumbs or backgrounds that Disney tends to leave in one movie that is a nod to another movie. One movie that is a nod to another movie. So, for instance, you know, mrs Potts and Chips. They are just chips and we're going to put an S on the end of something. Mrs Potts and Chips from Beauty and the Beast make an appearance in Tarzan. That's another one. Sebastian from the Little Mermaid makes an appearance in Aladdin, and Aladdin's magic carpet makes an appearance in Princess and the Frog. I just love that. I love those breadcrumbs that Disney tends to leave in one movie that alludes to another movie.
Speaker 2:One of my favorite movies that has come out recently is Inside Out 2. Anxiety stop. I love Inside Out 2. I actually loved the first one when it came out. When the first one came out, I was a case manager at the time and actually used to assign that movie for my parents to watch, just so that they could get a better understanding of their child, and not only because Disney ain't just for the kids, so that they not only could get a better sense of their child, and not only because Disney ain't just for the kids, so that they not only could get a better sense of their child and what they may be thinking, but those so that they could get a handle on their own emotions and realize who's at the control panel right now. You leading with anger. You might be leading with at the time anxiety wasn't on the scene when the first one came out, so you might be leading with sadness and just to identify those emotions and learning how to settle in them.
Speaker 2:And more recently I was at the parks with a couple of my really good friends One of them happens to be an amazing therapist and we just happened to walk in one of the stores and they had 100 Acre Woods merchandise all out Winnie the Pooh and Eeyore and Piglet. So we're just looking through the merchandise and talking about it and I was, and I jokingly mentioned that you know you need to get you a posse, that's the 100 Acre Woods crew. And we were joking about it, laughing, and a couple of the ladies, they were like what, what do you mean? What do you mean? I was like you know they, they the OG inside out crew, and I just started explaining.
Speaker 2:You know, everybody I won't say everybody, maybe it's just me gravitates towards Eeyore because he is just always just so melancholy, right, his voice, he is just a low mood, he's lethargic. And what I want to point out and what I pointed out as we were in the store looking, when I say get you a crew that's like the 100 Acre Woods crew, is the fact that all of them had their own set of stuff, right? So I'm just talking about Eeyore. He had his own set of stuff, his level of negativity, his, you know, lethargic behavior.
Speaker 2:Clearly Eeyore had a form of depression, clearly clearly Eeyore had a form of depression, clearly, but nobody tried to change him, like they would invite him to the picnic and just let him scroll on in and not try to cheer him up and not try to do all these things. And of course, rabbit was, seems like the rabbit had a little touch of OCD, you know, just excessively concerned with order and rules and perfection and organization and just preferred task completion. And then you had old Al sitting up there on the top in the tree looking down on people with a tendency to, you know, speak more complex and acting like he was um wanted to be by himself due to the you know the, the belief that the comprehension that could nobody comprehend what he was saying you so.
Speaker 2:He's just so much smarter than everybody else. And then you had, of course, tigger, which is my husband's favorite Tigger, because I'm laughing because we know Tigger can't stay focused. Tigger got a little hyperactivity going on. He's a bit impulsive, that Tigger can't stay focused. Tigger got a little hyperactivity going on. He's a bit impulsive, that Tigger. He got a little touch of ADHD.
Speaker 2:And then you got old Kanga and Rue. Oh, the mama baby duo and Rue just want to stay in the pouch. Kanga just want to protect him. Rue is just so vulnerable and his mama is just literally overly protective. And so they got a little social anxiety going on, especially Kanga. She just her overprotectiveness is a little bit overbearing at times. Me and me and that can be me as well just want to be overprotective. Stay right here in the pouch, don't go too far, Don't want off. And who else is in there? You got Piglet. Of course. Piglet is shy and fearful and timid and always worried, and you can see it. It's like Piglet develops like the little twitch, which is a clear sign of quivering or anxiety.
Speaker 2:So we were just talking while we were in the store having this in-depth conversation about all of these characters and not only what they represent, which is, in fact, a community of love for your friends, even when they are not perfectly put together. And again, I'll call the 100 Acre Woods the OG inside out, because clearly Christopher Robin is the only human that is in the cartoon. So this is clearly a part of his imagination, right? And so some speculate that these are all characteristics that make up Christopher himself, that he is projecting how he's feeling in the moment. Who has what's going on in that moment? Oh, I forgot about poo. Like, how could I forget about poo? It's winnie the poo and friends, like how could I forget about him? So, um, poo has an eating disorder. Oh, there's a rumble in my tummy Every time something going on. Pooh gonna need some honey. People is upset and Pooh gonna need some honey. And it's time to go to sleep, pooh gonna need some honey. It's waking up. He gonna need that honey. He is. Every behavior, everything that he does, is associated with him eating. That he does is associated with him eating.
Speaker 2:So, again, I just think that you know you should have a group of people that are around you that accept you for where you are, but continue to do life with you how you are. I think that there is space and room for growth. Obviously, we don't want people to stay in unsafe or untreated circumstances. However, it is okay to recognize that your friends are not okay and to be accepting enough to let them be themselves whatever that is around you, without trying to change them. If somebody is not in a good space, if you got a friend that's an Eeyore at the moment, then it's okay to be Eeyore in the moment, like they might be experienced in a situation where they are just lethargic and depressed, and it's okay to be a friend to that person and still invite them and still want them to come and still be accepted and still hold space and help guide them to where they can receive the help that they need, can receive the help that they need.
Speaker 2:I truly believe, just like in the movie Inside Out and Inside Out 2, that we have these complex emotions and we have these complex feelings and we go through life oftentimes placing not only standards on ourselves but on the relationships in our lives, on our friends, that are oftentimes not very realistic. And so when I watch again movies like Inside Out and I watch Hundred Acre Woods. You know Poo and His Friends. I am reminded that we all bring something to the table, all bring something to the table, we all bring a level of insight and it is okay to one hold space for yourself and where you happen to be in the moment in the day, in whatever situation you're going to going through, and to also hold space for your friends and to allow them to be who they need to be in the moment. So y'all get out there and watch all a couple of Disney movies through some undistracted lenses. You never know might be a character or two that you can relate to.
Speaker 1:Honestly, this whole story was one big old breadcrumb. And what really stood out to me, beyond just the movie facts, was that moment in store, looking at the 100 Acre Woods crew and realizing, wow, they were deeply relatable. And I don't think I've ever really sat with that before, because I feel like as children children you're allowed to feel, but it's like when you become an adult where do those feelings go? We don't give them space, we don't give them room anymore. And the one thing that I do like about the 100 Acre Woods crew, it wasn't about labeling, it was just about seeing them and accepting them in that moment, for who they were like come as you are, we still want you at the picnic.
Speaker 1:That part really got me, because isn't that what we all need a crew that knows that we're not always operating at a hundred percent, but invites us anyway, check in with yourself and your people, ask who's driving the control panel today? And how can I show up with love, even if sadness or fear is in the front seat for a while? Because, like my mama said, it's not about being perfectly put together, it's about showing up anyway. Honey pot and all. Thank you for joining us today and listening to me and my mama chat about all things disney, but really emotional intelligence, and tune in next time when we get a little bit deeper into this crew of ours. Love ya and always choose joy.