Inside Out: Joy Needs Sadness (Ecclesiastes 3:4)
Joy in Inside Out believes her job is to keep Riley happy at all costs. She sidelines Sadness, seeing her as the enemy. But the breakthrough comes when Joy realizes Sadness is not the problem - Sadness is part of the solution. Core memories can be both happy and sad. Ecclesiastes declares a time to weep and a time to laugh. Emotional health is not perpetual positivity but the integration of all feelings. Joy running the show alone nearly destroys Riley; Joy and Sadness working together brings healing. We were not made for constant happiness but for wholeness - all our emotions honored and integrated.
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