The key message that made Inside Out 2 bigger than Barbie

The key message that made Inside Out 2 bigger than Barbie Disney When Riley learns to embrace anxiety alongside joy, her life improves While anxiety is one of our most uncomfortable emotions, the Pixar sequel shows how it can be valuable, and not always just something to be "fixed". Disney Inside Out 2 continues the theme of personifying key emotions – this time, adding extras that emerge during adolescence Anxiety soon hijacks the Headquarters and banishes Riley's Joy and her gang to the "memory vault", alongside Riley's deepest secrets. The havoc she wreaks on Riley's mind – including the theft of her "sense of self" – all result from misguided attempts to ensure that Riley will be safe and loved in the future. Disney When Riley learns to embrace anxiety alongside joy, her life improves There are many possible reasons why this might be, but one simple explanation is that a negative view of anxiety only adds more reasons to worry.