
Are You Too Encouraging?
I recently saw the movie Inside Out. If you haven’t seen it, don’t worry, this isn’t a spoiler. The basic premise is how a child’s emotions—joy, sadness, fear, anger, and disgust—interact and change. Part of the storyline shows interaction between Joy and Sadness. Viewers quickly learn that Joy thinks Sadness should take a back seat in the child’s everyday life. I grew up in a church environment where the pastor routinely said from the pulpit “I’ve never had a blue day.” As a