The Psychology Behind Anxiety - Encanto: Pepa - Therapist Reacts!
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Psychotherapist Georgia Dow explains how anxiety is contagious and how Pepa from "Encanto" exhibits that anxiety!
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the fact abuela is always saying pepa has a cloud and not asking her why she has the cloud is so sad but so realistic at the same time, especially in the context of a family
This is the real answer.
To Abuela, each of the family members was defined by their power, not by who they were.
Just another example of Alma not fully understanding what these gifts are. She wanted the cloud gone, but couldn't fully understand that it was tied to Pepa's feelings and what she was asking of her. As effective as it would be if it worked, emotions don't turn off or reset, only built up and released.
Oh damn, I never really thought about what she *wasn't* asking Pepa
@@unityedits3722 I did
@@RedK5 like I noticed she kept bringing up the clouds, but it never clicked that she didn't ask anything beyond that
i like that she dresses up as the character she is talking about
Agreed, I love Georgia's adorable cosplay in her videos! 💞
thank you =P
I thought she might have said "what do you mean" 😂
Haha, yeah she didn't have to try too hard for this one.
And she looks exactly like Pepa would look older (pepas technically 50) but looks amazing and has no wrinkles and has a very skinny Frame (not that those are negatives but she doesn't have any visible wrinkles just like Pepa
I actually feel bad for Pepa. Of course, everyone in the family has some issues with expressing their emotions freely because of Abuela, but when Pepa is upset, you can literally SEE it and it can affect others a lot. So all her life she was probably forced to always be happy, and all her negative emotions just always kept building up, never being properly released :(
agree
That's why even though in the song we don't talk about Bruno she basically says he messed up her wedding. he could see she was stressing and that caused the storm not specifically Bruno himself.
Yeah she's bottling up her Emotions like me when I got so stressed out thinking about my past and how badly I want to scream it all out but I don't have a voice to free myself to free my Emotion's
I have cataplexy . So In times of high emotion stress I'll have sudden loss of muscle tone and my body can collapse. If I don't keep my emotions under control then I lose control of my body. When my father was dying. I had to sleep outside in the car one night during a thunderstorm,, Because I couldn't get my arms and legs to move. I'll try to scream out for help but no sound will come out. During My worst cataplexy attacks, Starts with loss of my vision everything goes black, And then my whole body crumbles as I lose feeling In my legs the rest of my body. I can't see I can't feel I can't speak but I can hear everything and conscious of what's going on around me. Terrifying and frustrating.
At 1st I saw myself relating to Louisa, But with a lot of these videos coming out and finding more characters are relate to more. I went from Louisa to Isabella and now peppa. I find it interesting how at face value of watching the movie I see myself in these characters and I think I'm absolutely sure and I don't have that much connection with the others, Until I watch a video like this and and I see them at a different angle I didn't see before. so fascinating To me. It helps me to look at myself my memories and everything in a different perception. Shutting more light upon the bigger picture. And condos such a great movie , thank you. For your videos.
I also find it interesting that I want to relate to mirabels mom, deep down that's what I truly want to relate to.
I like her husband. Calling their marriage, married in a hurricane, "what a joyous day". Exactly the kind of energy that can knock her out of her troubles.
Pepa: It was my wedding day >:(
Felix: It was our wedding day : DD
@@EtamirTheDemiDeer lmao pepa said " my " and felix said " our "
Yeah! I absolutely adore him. So supportive and just lovely. I love that. So so much.
He is a treasure !!! I love how Felix and Camilo are both sweet and playful guys, but also serious about caring for Pepa
Felix is one of the best husbands ever written
I love how devoted Felix is to Pepa. He's so patient, and tolerates her ever shifting mood swings.💖
They are adorable together arnt they, You can feel their bond
@Georgia Dow and i love them dancing
@@GeorgiaDow Please do a video on Tio Felix! He's seriously so good for Pepa emotionally and not enough people are talking about it!!!
Everyone in the Encanto fandom has been calling them Gomez and Morticia 🖤
And then their son Camilo helping Pepa calm down and comforting her, it's the sweetest thing I've ever seen-
I’m glad that the writers gave Pepa such a supporting husband. When you reach the end of the film and Bruno tells her to just let her emotions out and that it’s okay for her to express herself, Felix jumps in a says “That’s what I’ve been saying!”, and it’s true. If you rewatch the film, you can see how differently everyone treats Pepa. Abuela is always telling Pepa “You have a cloud” or “Calm down”, which just upsets Pepa even more. However, Felix won’t tell her to calm down or get rid of her cloud, and instead tells her to just move it somewhere else. For example, “The flowers, the flowers!”. Felix isn’t telling her to get rid of her tornado, but he’s asking her to move it so it won’t damage the decor. This actually seems to help Pepa calm down a bit because he’s not telling her to stop being anxious, but just to take it somewhere else.
they are wonderful together
My head cannon is that Pepa's anxiety over her clouds is because Abuela keeps pointing them out, usually in a negative light. That Pepa isn't upset about them until it's pointed out. Cuz if tears leads to rain, not all tears are sad. You can have tears of joy over events... like a wedding. But if you're always told clouds = bad, you'll never see a cloud as a moment of joy.
true good point
Shade and cooling rain during hot days. HOW is that bad ? Surely Abuela should've known better than that.
She reads romance novels what a sweetheart 💗 how could rain from something beautiful as that be bad
Classical conditioning. I'm starting to believe Abuela has a degree in inflicting emotional damage HFJKHCHFHDHD
I was actually wondering if the storms aren’t the kind of emotion but rather the strength. So her wedding is a huge moment for her, and generates a hurricane. At the end she can joyfully dance in hail because she’s just that happy. Her anxiety and breathing exercises are from a lifetime of trying to not feel ANY emotion strongly.
I love how the birth order of the triplets reflects their personalities. Julieta heals the pain of the past through her cooking, Pepa represents the present, the changing times, and Bruno is the future, something that we NEVER want to talk about.
Ooh good analysis!
dang, that's pretty smart. you deserve more likes
You should tweet this , assuming its your analysis ifc cause people be copying and pasting
Oh my God! I never thought about that! I don’t know I never picked up on that before.
🤯🤯🤯
As someone with an anxiety disorder I felt so bad for Pepa. She's feeling the same things as everyone else, but her power makes her emotions so obvious so literally she can't hide it. And because Abuela keeps trying to get her to control what is essentially uncontrollable for the sake of appearances and order, she feels anxious about being anxious (and anxious about her emotions changing the weather) which makes it that much worse. There's nothing worse than the fear of fear, and the fear that you're going to lose yourself to your anxiety.
and control is an illusion. well said
I have bad anxiety and just high emotions in general and everyone's like "chill" instead of understanding why i feel like that even though it's miner to others. For example:
Someone: I just moved your funko slightly, it's bit a big deal?
Me: IT IS FOR ME
~
Someone: hey, can you empty the dishwasher?
Me: can't, doing the Bathroom.
Someone: why can't you just pause and do it now?
Me: because I'm already on the bathroom, and if I stop everything to do something it'll put everything out of oder!
Someone: what order?
~
Someone: want help with the kitchen?
Me: uh, sure, wanna wash dishes?
Someone: how about I mop?
Me: NO
Someone: why?
Me: because that's the last step!
Someone: step?
Me: I was thought to clean the kitchen in certain order, mopping is the last thing you, so we don't mop until everything else is done.
It's always "Pepa you have a cloud!" and not "Pepa why do you have a cloud?"
good point
I have heard that suppression of emotions is very unhealthy
I love how on rewatch, Isabela's intro feels less show-offy and more like she just wanted to soothe her aunt and make her feel calmer.
yes we look at it in a different light now
After Isabela's confession when Mirabel confronted her, i went like _"oooOooooohh,,,,, oohh sh*t :'0"_
You could also kind of tell that it WAS soothing her, indicated by the ray of sunshine that made Isabella glow and stand out. She had distracted her Aunt from her worries and made her feel better all at the same time.
One thing you didn't talk much about is the effect Abuela had on Pepa. Pepa is a very emotional person but the only emotion she was "allowed" to feel was happy since anything else would negatively affect those around her. It even influenced how she dressed, wearing cheery yellow and sun earrings.
And that's why the granizo (snow) at the end it's so nice! Sunny it's not the only good emotion she has, and she's now accepted her way of feeling and not longer shoves it out the door (literally ;b haha). And Felix loving her being her it's just, ugh. Chief kiss. I absolutely loved that. I love Pepa and Felix so so much.
@@francescafrancesca3554 “Married in a hurricane!” “What a joyous day :) but anyway, we don’t talk about Bruno”
YES!! Exactly!!! There's nothing wrong with Pepa's emotions or the way she expresses them. It's because she always has to surpress them that they BECOME a problem. Even though it was rushed in the end, I love how Bruno tells her that she should let her feeling 'go' and when the family, the 'casita', is healed again, we see her and Felix happily dancing in the rain.
It was never that Pepa's emotions were a problem - they were MADE into a problem and her constant surpression of them BECAME a problem.
Seriously, that family is the posterchild of the toxic family full with posterchildren of children of toxic families, and Pepa is one of them. She is the child who is never allowed to show what she really feels and always has to project the 'happy happy family face' towards the outside. Then we have the Golden Child and the Scapegoat in Isabela and Mirabel. Of course we also have the child who sees the problems in the family and dares to adress them only to then promptly be pointed out as the 'squeeky wheel' and becomes the 'problem child' in Bruno. We have the child who is capable in an emergency and so has to shoulder ALL the burdens until she breaks in Luisa, and the child who knows the problems in the family and becomes the secret keeper (Dolores). And that's just the tip of the iceberg. And it all sprouts from ABUELA. ABUELA is the problem, not Pepa's emotions.
Copy pasted from somewhere else:
On Pepa's wedding day, it's likely - no scratch that - definitely because of how Abuela kept telling her to act happy. The stress and expectations from that would've probably lead to the hurricane even if Bruno would've gave no "weather report".
I love how when Pepa drank coffee her clouds instantly went away. Now that is a freaking mood
That is showing addiction
I like how in Pepa’s design her eyeliner is always bleeding because she’s always crying. It’s really funny and sad.
Wai- what? I didn't realized that o-o
The fact that Pepa is constantly raining on herself doesn't help her mascara either and I'm sure having damp clothes all the time doesn't help her moods.
I thought those were just eyebags. I mean, she is constantly stressed, and having to bottle her emotions, and is constantly in emotional turmoil, and I also imagine that she does not sleep well, so it’s not unrealistic to think, that she’d have some eye bags from that. I know that I certainly.
pepa thought he was being devious while smiling but the reality was he was Hernando so he wasn't afraid or awkward to tell her congratulations.
oh nice one didn't think of that
There's one aspect to Pepa's character I was hoping you'd touch upon. When she begins the song about Bruno, Felix sings accompaniment, reinforces her lines, mirroring her in both tone and posture. But each time he does, Pepa looks on at him in annoyance until she storms of, saying, "Are you telling the story or am I?" After he dotes on her a bit, she's fine with his accompaniment and no longer reacts.
I thought this was a very interesting reaction. As you stated, Pepa probably feels less like a person and more like an event, and probably excuses herself from a lot of interactions entirely. So when the spotlight is on her, she's loath to let it go; it's something she's needed but, because of the storms, she had to tamp down. Felix is insightful and picks up on her moods and thoughts quite well, balancing her out. It is a nurturing relationship.
You hit the nail in the head. I completely agree! I love them, so so much. Just, uh. Such nurturing relationships.
I love to analyze everything similarly, but that moment felt like silly, sassy banter between a couple to me. Seemed very playful.
Not to mention as soon as the song starts, she full on mugs him in the face. He goes,”What?” But puts his hands up, cuz he doesn’t want to upset her. Something small and subtle I noticed.
when Bruno is singing and brigs up her wedding she freaks out, you can see in her face she is smiling but her eyes are frantic, because yeah that's a sore spot, but then Bruno explains and apologices and her face changes completely towards happiness and relief
yes it is such a nice change
I think a lot of the problem here is that Abuela has one ideal emotion for her - and that emotion isn't happy, it's calm. Pepa is clearly happy when she's dancing in hail at the end. She has a moment with Camilo earlier that is so loving and sweet but it is raining, and you can see that she has so much more comfort with expressing her true self away from her mother - and with her doting and loving son who cares for her. Abuela has taught her that clear skies is the ideal but that means that not only is she blocked off from fully experiencing her negative emotions, but she's also not really able to feel the full range of positive ones without being told that she is disturbing others.
11:06 I think it’s worth mentioning, in the scene where Isabela gave the flowers to Pepa and calmed her down, it also shows that she’s been perfect at making everyone else in the family happy. Not just abuela.
true
It’s actually quite sad Pepa has to be her own therapist, if Felix isn’t present. Great job Georgia. If you want to, you should do a video on Felix as well. He’s super supportive, while being fun and needs to get his credit.
Also, who do you think had their best moment with Mirabel?
yay thx
I actually feel for Tia Pepa. She deals with so much stress and there's no way to hide it because her moods control the weather. She seems like she has alot of pressure to be happy all the time because if she's not, everyone can see it and feel it. Her hubby Felix is so supportive though, I love that! I think Pepa really missed Bruno and that had alot to do with why she was always so stressed out.
I like the metaphor, though, that your negative emotions have a real and tangible impact on those around you. Unfortunately Pepa’s gift puts her emotions in your face, so she couldn’t have (for instance) kept anything private like Mirabel in Waiting For A Miracle
@@eileensnow6153 Yeah she portrays an imbalance of emotions too. She tries to be positive but it hurts her more than it helps her, kinda like toxic positivity. I am happy she learns to express herself in a healthy way at the end.
Was Bruno her son or Brother?
@@wineoverwisdom7530 Her brother.
Though actually, when you think about it.
If it was sunny all the time. Everyone would die.
Without rain, the plants wouldn't get water. Without the plants, animals wouldn't get food, and the valley would die.
So, although everyone always wants Pepa to be happy all the time so they get sun. But if she didn't get upset or sad sometime. The entire ecosystem would be destroyed
Mood swings can be hard enough when they don't cause monsoons.
well said !!
I know this isn't clearly stated in the movie but the children received their gift around 5. And from this moment on Abuela thought about ways to "use them for the community". They live in a very lush green village that wouldn't need only sun to grow but also out-of-season rain. How could Pepa help? By making it rain on command in other words by being sad on command, as if her emotions weren't hers to feel but others to dictate. I really feel you should have touch on this as it is bound to be a part of Pepa's way to see her emotions.
I relate to Pepa the most. I have bad anxiety and just high emotions in general and everyone's like "chill" instead of understanding why i feel like that even though it's miner to others.
Facts
Same 🤣🤣
Same. Look up "highly sensitive person", I imagine you'll find it to be spot on.
@@Snapdragonflie I have certain things I'm vary particular about. Pretty sure it's a combination of my undiagnosed autism, control issues, and obsessive composive tendencies but I'll have a conversations like these all the time:
Someone: I just moved your funko slightly, it's bit a big deal?
Me: IT IS FOR ME
~
Someone: hey, can you empty the dishwasher?
Me: can't, doing the Bathroom. After though.
Someone: why can't you just pause and do it now?
Me: because I'm already on the bathroom, and if I stop everything to do something it'll put everything out of oder!
Someone: what order?
Me: the oder in my mind!
~
Someone: want help with the kitchen?
Me: uh, sure, wanna wash dishes?
Someone: how about I mop?
Me: NO
Someone: why?
Me: because that's the last step!
Someone: step!?
Me: I was thought to clean the kitchen in certain order; mopping is the last thing you do, so we don't mop until everything else is done.
@@purplezombie4940 highly sensitive people can be misdiagnosed with autism due to overlap in some sensory issues, among other things. For example, being overwhelmed by lots of noise, or irritated by a tag in your clothes to the point of distraction and meltdown (commonly in younger kids). I once thought "oh, am I autistic?" based on certain aspects common in autism, but I clearly don't fit the actual diagnosis criteria. Same goes for OCD and ADD. Highly sensitive is a much more accurate match for me as a whole. Though, of course people can be both.
Pepa strikes me as the embodiment of the happiness industry: smile, feel positive, show only joy, and the world will be bright and sunny. In her case, literally. That is just as much self-suppression as her nieces, Isobela and Louisa, have to deal with. Plus, everyone has to treat her with kid gloves, given that frustration could flatten houses or destroy the year's harvest: when Camilo is giving her tea to help her calm down, is he being a loving son or a child with first hand experience of how bad Mama's wrath can really be?
Sure, she can get away with snapping back at her mother, because she can never have the perfect masks that others can wear. But that seems a very small safety valve.
“Is he being a loving son or a child with first hand experience of how bad Mama’s wrath can really be?”
Felt that
There's probably some natural worry for the destruction her anxiety could cause, but I doubt he's afraid of her hurting him. He calmly sits her down, reassures her, and tries to helps her breathe deeply, with just a calm look and tone. When she gets startled and accidentally zaps him she looks worried and sorry. We don't get to see the aftermath of that tiny clip but from what we see of Pepa being apologetic whenever her powers bother someone or worried that they would, she wouldn't intentionally hurt anyone, much less her children with them.
6:42
To be perfectly fair, most of the time we see Bruno is when he's interacting with his niece. The times he interacts with his mother and sisters are during their reunion and he's attempting to explain himself to them in a sincere way. It's entirely possible that he HAD occasionally been mischievous with Pepa and Julieta growing up. He IS still their little brother, after all.
Idk if someone has mentioned this, but when Bruno sings the line "there's a lot to say about Bruno" you can see pepa's face fall slightly in guilt as she realises that he heard everything they said about him.
This tells us that a lot of the negative things she said were said out of hurt and anger, but she never really meant any of it~
nice catch
@@GeorgiaDow
Thank you, I just discovered you today and I've been binge watching your videos before bed, you're very smart!
I've learnt a few things already and look forward to seeing more!
I'm especially excited for the vox machina characters!
6:34 "Every single time that we actually saw Bruno, He's always adorably cute" The right clip and saying straight facts
he really is sweet
Pepa dancing in the hail reminded me of probably one of the most important things I've learned about emotions and mood from therapy. I have Bipolar Disorder so something I've learned to ask myself when I feel intense emotion or a longer lasting mood is "why do I feel this way?" to distinguish whether there is a reason I'm feeling this way, or is it an episode. Expanding on that, I've also learned that just because an emotion or mood hurts doesn't mean it's not okay to feel them. Giving your negative emotions time to play out and letting them exist is really important, even if it's painful to do at first.
"why do I feel this way?" yes so important I am happy you ask yourself this. we all need to
I think that the end of Encanto would have been happier if Pepa and Dolores hadn't recovered their powers. And about the donkeys... they pretty understand how Luísa feel, about carrying heavy burdens and all.
well stated about donkeys as beasts of burden
I think your Pepa cosplay is your best yet because your hair matches hers so well! I love Mirabel best because she's who I would want to be, but if I'm honest with myself, I'm a Pepa - and it's so FRUSTRATING!
It's okay! You know who you are most like, and now you can do what Mirabel does, see the value of the people because of who they are and not just what they can do, and take care of yourself. Don't limit yourself, I think you can do both! Or better, your own version of Mirabel, OR better, you! With all you've learned and done, to be the best version of yourself. Feeling deeply it's not a curse, we can learn to manage it and enjoy it, live happily with it. It can also be kind of a superpower. Wishing you the best!!! Day and life :)
I feel you! Me and Pepa are cut out of the same mold! And I even look like her, and I don’t even try to. My hair is naturally red, and very curly. And as I’ve lately, it’s gotten very very long, down to my waist at least. And It’s so thick and bushy, that I usually don’t know what to do with it, so I put it in a braid. I’ve been doing that since before Encanto even came out, so when I saw the movie, and I saw Pepa, I freaked out! And then when I discovered that me and her basically have the same personality, I fell love with her! She’s hard-core my favorite character!!!!! Lol!!!
@@imagaybanana2004 off topic but I love your name 😂
@@acxce Thank you so much! Lol
I always think about what it must have been like as a child for her. Expecting a 5 year old to control their emotions so they don't cause a hurricane. Or a teenager for that matter.
I have the hardest time liking Pepa but that's an unfortunate side effect of seeing in her things I don't like in myself. Blaming other people for saying things that "flood my brain" is something I don't want to do but fear doing. I hate the idea that people might not want to be around me or walk on eggshells incase I get upset.
It's lovely seeing other people liking Pepa
She’s my favourite character
"I have a right to be *UPSET* !" - Eda Clawthorne, after learning of her mother's problematic helping methods
This is why she was my second favourite character, I felt so bad for her. Her face says it all, she looks like she’s suffering her hairs a mess, she says intense dark circles, imagine being a 50 year old and still not able to control your emotions. I would honestly not like that power. Every time she has a cloud on her head, she gets wet, who wants to be wet every time you become angry or sad? I love this video, explains everything. And this is why my dream job is a therapist.
aww means so much to me thank you for the heartfelt comment
@@GeorgiaDow omg, thanks for replying ❤️ I love your videos
I think Pepa would be far less upset by the wedding having messy weather if Alma wasn't pressing everyone to be perfect. Felix says ABUELA, get the umbrellas.
Alma is the one picking flowers out if Isa's hair AND pointing out Pepa's clouds.
It's pretty insidious that Isa became the perfect one, just because her gift was better suited to being pretty and showy, without causing distress like Pepa's weather issues.
I lots my mother to cancer and when she said
‘Sometimes we just need people around us to support us and shoulder us through hard feelings’ I was like that’s me
People have been asking if they can help and I have told them the fact that you care enough to say to me that your there for me is more helpful then any physical help you could give
my thoughts are with you. I am very sorry for losing your mother. Take the time you need and I hope you have lots of care around you.
Georgia: "And beecause she wanted her wedding day to be wonderful, and perfect."
Pauses for a second and gestures as if to say like you know who.
Me: :)
ISABELA YOUR BOYFRIEND'S HERE
*HA HA HA*
I was hoping someone would notice. You made my day. Silco would be proud
I love that Felix is always trying to calm her down normally, where the more controlling Abuela is just "you have a cloud". That is about as helpful as telling a depressed erson to "stop being sad"
Felix is a wonderful person
Everybody on the family have to deal with the affects of their power. On Pepa's case, is very visual and clear so not only her but everyone around her know how she feels. And to add insult to injury, there's nothing she can do about it. She can't control it. So being always prone to judging and never having privacy
6:30 I like how you phrased that, considering that Bruno in the flashback was literally cast in a sickly green light, as if he's a demonic force.
and he's so sweet
I love how you actually look like Pepa! The hair and the orange mix with yellow shirt! Amazing! Seriously, can you imagine being in Pepa’s shoes, well, sandals in this case. Her story is actually sad.
I found interesting how probably Pepa's perception about Bruno altered the perception their children had about him. Even if they were pretty young when they last saw him, they percieved Bruno as mysterious, mischievous villian, due to the things Pepa told them about him, but they never talked to him that much.
Thank you for such a good analysis!
I love that Pepa's happy weather isn't clear skies and rainbows much like her false projection of happiness that abuela taught her
In the intro song, it sounds like she has one of the coolest gifts - weather control! But having everybody be able to see how you feel all the time has to be hell, especially in that family.
What I find adorable about Pepa is that given her gift and being raised by Alma, you'd expect her to be a "toxic positivity" type of person (think Joy in Inside Out) - and she does try to do that, but completely fails every time. She can't do toxic positivity, no matter how hard she tries. She's incapable of being anything but completely authentic, all the time. Perhaps that's what Félix likes about her; he's always authentic too.
I love how you described the reunion between the three siblings, because Pepa's reaction to seeing Bruno again is something I have seen happen myself, and it's something really special.
Story time!
My mother has an older sister who is mentally ill and has to take meds to keep herself sane and not slip into a very cruel form of paranoia, something that was left unchecked for an incredibly long time when she was young. This made her develop an incredibly strained relationship with her parents and my mom.
Eventually she cut ties with everyone and moved away to France with her husband and (now) two sons, basically disowning herself from the family.
My moms told me several stories of awful things she'd done to her or their parents, almost in the same sense Pepa and the other Madrigals talk about Bruno.
Anyway, many years pass by then. My grandpa died, she sought out contact again in that time with my mom and grandma, and she even eventually flew back to meet them for the first time in years. She had changed.. Was no longer the person she was in her youth. She was dutifully taking meds for her condition, allowing her to level out and act like herself again. Didnt even remember the awful things she did in their youth apparently.
Anyway, I went with my mother to visit my grandma's place (where she was staying) as a bit of backup, and I got to see firsthand how during the entire ride my mom was tense, not looking forward to it. But when we arrived, and she actually /saw/ her sister? I saw how years of anger and grudges just.. Wash away in an instant as she went over and even embraced her. It was as if none of what had happened mattered anymore. My mom described it to me like that after the fact as well. She had missed her older sister so much, even if she had buried those feelings for so long. Nowadays, they have a pretty positive and healthy bond where they send eachother care packages every few months and talk regularly. (with my grandma too)
At the end of the day, my mom did tell her that she was never going to forget the hell she had put her and their mother through.. But she was glad to see that she was herself again, and wanted to mend what was broken.
Anyway, that's why I thought the reunion scene was so touching and realistic. Sometimes negative emotions just.. Wash away the moment we see someone for the first time in years who we cared for a lot.
Thanks for reading!
I like the fact that Pepa, at the end is dancing underneath a cloud which is hailing/sleeting...in a tropical climate like Colombia, that would be so refreshing!
Pepa is actually one of the characters I relate to the most. Not the interpretation of always being happy and suppresing your anxiety, but the fact that I find it really hard to hide what I'm feeling, and I hate when people tell me to ignore it or get over it. I'll get over it when I get over it! >:c
Nice analysis on her character ^^
Happy you found it helpful and accurate. Just get over it is so hurtful
I'm begging, pleading, waiting on baited breath for the day when you go over the different ways Alma & Pedro's backstory/loss is addressed in the movie and how it affects everything throughout. No joke, the Dos Oruguitas version makes me cry every. single. time.
Yes the song makes me cry also i think iw ill do alma
Like Pepa at the table trying to calm by attending to her hair, so I also feel like brushing my hair is helping me when I feel anxious.
Yeah, I play in my hair.
Every Madrigal in this movie has their fans, and I love that 😊
I had problems for the longest time with my own mother scolding me for just *exhibiting* negative emotions. If I wasn't neutral or smiling, she'd tell me off. I got so sick of it. Being positive all the time is not healthy, and I knew it since the beginning. Even pointing it out to her using Pixar's Inside Out didn't sway her (she just seemed to assume I was 'being negative' again and brushed me off to 'discourage the negative emotions'). That said, I think this movie might've gotten to her. I haven't had too many strong negative emotions lately, but she hasn't scolded me for my emotions in the past few months. Crossing my fingers that she puts this toxic positivity mindset behind her for good.
I can relate to Pepa in the way that she's always trying to repress or control her emotion, I think that's why she's my favorite. It'd be really rough for her to deal with her feelings when there's a literal physical relation to those feelings.
This movie has a whole cast of characters.
Yes it really does
Her gift is literally a curse
blessing and a curse
6:55 haha! the silent nod after you said perfect cracked me up.
Also, I thought it was an interesting detail that during the We Don't Talk About Bruno song, it starts with Pepa saying "It was MY wedding day" and then Felix (her husband) saying "It was OUR wedding day". I personally thought that this could be because she always has to be spoiled in order to keep her calm and avoid the negative weather, so she is always the center of attention. It is always Felix's job to agree with her and keep her in an ideal state of mind all the time.
I don't know that's just what I thought at first glance, what do you think?
Honestly, i think its just done for the song. Peppa is the one telling Mirabel the story, Felix just happens to be in the room! When someone is talking about something that you are interested in or excited about, of course you want to share your perspective! Felix is a loving husband and father. He wants to support his family, the people he loves and cares about. When he sees Peppa in distress he does what he can to try and calm her down. He also tries to teach her that its ok to feel what youre feeling in the moment, to not bottle up your emotions, something that she has been all but forced to do her entire life. Felix doesnt do all of that because he has to, he does it because he WANTS to, because he really loves Peppa and he WANTS her to be happy, not because its his job.
@@sunnydeee_ yeah perhaps I worded a couple things wrong but when I look at the song, Pepa looks annoyed whenever Felix interjects. And when she says "you telling this story or am I?" , Felix is the one to apologize and do what he knows makes her happy. I definitely agree with you that Felix doesn't do this out of some sort of obligation though, he clearly loves her.
@Alfon Was hoping someone would get it =)) thanks SO much tehehe
6:12 i actually have an interesting theory about this. As soon as Bruno gets back, Pepa is seen smiling at him, despite just singing a whole song about why he’s so bad. I think she was secretly really hurt by him leaving that she disguised it as anger for him over more petty events. Because like we all know, anger is easier to feel than hurt.
(Huge Smile) LOVE the mid-vid pause to highlight the earrings! Made my day! Sparked joy!
thank you CL =)) as always
She reminds me of something I really like about myself, “Wear my heart on my sleeve” cause what good is it to hide how your feeling, part of the symbolism I got for my first tattoo
Georgia was made for this pépa cosplay
yeah I kinda fit Pepa. Thank you for being a subscriber =)
@@GeorgiaDow No, thank you
Well done, I just wish you had talked about Julieta, she and her husband being the only people who took abuela to task for being unfair. To me that took courage and care for her child.
Can you do a sibling dynamic video for this family! The 3 sets are all at different ages/stages of their sibling dynamic lives. Maybe 3 videos! :)
While I appreciate avideo on Pepa focusing fully on her, I wish something was said about her husband Felix. He truly is so supportive and attentive to her, relationship goals right there! I really think he is the sunshine in her life, as he seems to temper her moods and get her grounded.
Felix is delightful and he calms her so sweetly
Poor Pepa basically suffers from water torture anytime she's upset. Like imagine already being upset and just being dripped on with water
I'm more worried she might catch a cold. ):
I love how the way that Georgia describes anxiety is being chased or fighting a tiger. Very accurate.
Imagine how much pressure Pepa must constantly be under to be happy at all times. Her emotions literally affect the weather. Does she ever worry that if she really lets herself feel her feelings that someone might be injured or killed? What would living with that constant worry that if you aren't always happy, always sunny, if there aren't always always clear skies someone might die do to you?
Pepa actually reminds me of myself a bit
*and not just because I am also a redhead*
When she's anxious about being unable to find Antonio it reminds me of when i'm trying to find something/someone and i'm panicking because I can't find them.
Wanting her wedding day to be perfect (which is understandable) reminds me, once again, of myself. Being a perfectionist when things don't go exactly to plan, you get anxious or mad at yourself or someone else.
When she's talking about being worried about Antonio's night being perfect and the fact that it might go wrong, A G A I N, being a perfectionist in my eyes or being crazy anxious.
I don't think that Pepa's desire for her wedding day to be so perfect was entirely on her. Of course, all brides want their wedding day to be great, but the line Felix sings in "We Don't Talk About Bruno" is most telling, when he sings, "No clouds allowed in the sky". Alma kept such a stressful hold on making the Madrigal family look so perfect to the public that big events, like the wedding of one of the first generation of powerful keepers of the gift had to be perfect -- no clouds allowed in the sky. She was terrified of not being able to do things right for her mother. She had such a difficult time with anxiety, and everyone could see and judge every feeling she experienced. Anytime she didn't have the proper emotion, everyone was there to make sure she knew she was doing the wrong thing (except Felix, Bruno trying, and Camilo growing into the role). We should also give her credit for the fact that when Casita came down, the weather was clear, because she was trying to find Mirabel and make sure she was okay and that gave her the ability to keep things under control.
My family never lets me just feel my darker emotions it's like I have to be happy all the time
..... I love the adorable reactions you make sometimes doc (10:55, for example). :-D It honestly adds to your credibitlity when you say that people should embrace who they are and how they feel about things. :3 y'know - lead by example and all that jazz.
11:38 actually - that looks to be a hailstorm, which is ice. buuuut that actually adds to the weight of the scene, especially in how Félix dances in that hail, never taking his eyes off her. It really represents how he loves EVERYTHING about Pepa and not only accepts her and the things that come with her (normally you would hide from a hailstorm), but he openly embraces and adores them all.
aww thanks =) and yes it is hail and Felix and Pepa are the most adorable
Minor note: that's not snow, that's hail.
I love that sentiment.
'Its ok if we're not ok'
I needed to hear that, you have to just feel your emotions as they come. Not acting on them but allowing yourself to feel valid and just feel them
welcome =)
I like that point, when someone says stop being anxious, sad, ect. it's not that they do not care about you, it's that they might not be able to handle absorbing those emotions. And they themselves may handle strong emotions by trying to stop them or diminish them, so that is the way they know how to cope.
LOVE these videos! I always learn something that I can apply to my life from her videos! I also love how sweet and soft of a voice she has! I have a very loud voice naturally and I'm an in-home geriatric nurse so all of my patients suffer from at least a little hearing loss. So I talk louder for them and then I get home after spending all day at work and I just don't realize I'm yelling when I'm talking about the weather or what to have for dinner tonight xD
Thank you so much =) i am happy that the videos teach and help. It is my hope
When Casita dies, and Antonio starts crying because he lost his gift. She comforts him through his big feelings and it’s so sweet. 🥺❤️
My absolute favorite of the Madrigals
I really love this whole analysis. I think we all can learn how to control our anxiety and our destructive thoughts. Do you think you could do Julieta soon? She's someone I relate the most, cause she strikes me as very empathetic and caring.
yes I can =) good idea
I relate to Pepa mostly on the spiraling episodes when i get hit with an anxiety attack where my brain thinks this one thing I said or did is going to lead to the world ending or someone I care about being hurt. I've gotten better about it over the last few years but it sneaks up on me every now and again.
Also as said by many people here Felix is a s rank tier husband.
I love how you dress like all the characters you analyze. You nailed Pepa's aesthetic. Please, Dolores next. Do the whole Madrigal clan.
I think I will =)
I relate to Pepa's outburst sometimes, people love pointing out I'm angry which makes me upset even more
yes and makes it worse often
I remember watching this tv show, supergirl season 1, where due to red kryptonite, she unleashes all the negative emotion she has bottled up throughout the years, her way of doing so wad through anger, and I remember every time I watched it I would get so angry as well.
Her emotions affecting mine cuz I’m absorbing it
I am not an outwardly emotional person, but I my feelings are 🐸ing *deep* and difficult to understand for me. they often come so unexpectedly, they come delayed to the actual cause or suddenly when I don't know what they mean. I need time to properly decipher and process them to logically understand why they're there.
l could relate to pepa because of the need to always being on edge because of a potentially looming thunder storm...that's what it sometimes feels like.
Also she's stimming with her hair and I love that.
I want to get to a point where I can handle mistakes as gracefully as you did there. You forgot the earrings - a detail that would make the costume look complete - yet you used 'magic' and made a joke out of it midway instead of tiring yourself and redoing the first half again. I love how chill that was, and the joke actually made me smile.
A lot of the time, I worry too much about things going the wrong way that I forget how well things usually go. This week, even though I've practiced piano every day for half an hour, I still wasn't ready to show my teacher the piece I'm supposed to play. I worried I was being lazy by not upping the time, even when my boyfriend pointed out that I don't focus as well on longer practice sessions as I do with more compact ones. I started stressing that I'd look like a total idiot in class the next day, but today, my piano teacher cancelled and said he was busy getting settled back in after a New Year's vacation. It all turned out well in the end - I get more time to practice, so I'll most likely be ready by my next lesson on Monday where we'll do the show-and-tell for the piece, but I just wish I hadn't spent all that time worrying.
Sometimes I focus so much on the end result that I end up with a perfectly played piece that brings me no joy at all. But then what do I focus on? Practice is boring, I mess up while repeating the same song over and over to try and prepare to play it well by the next class, only to either beat myself up if I mess up on the day-of, or play it perfectly and toss the accolades aside to focus on the next piece.
I want to play piano because the idea of playing it well and actually enjoying it is appealing to me. But if I'm not enjoying it when I focus on the journey or the final result, what am I supposed to focus on?
Bruno: just asks Peppa "what about this weather, hu?"
Peppa: "HE WANTED TO RUIN MY WEDDING! LOOK AT THAT MISCHIEVOUS GRIN!"
I heard some people say that "mischievous grin" was probably bruno just awkward smiling because he was trying to make a joke to calm her. But for Pepa it probably seemed like a mischievous grin of trouble.
In Pepa's scene she's not dancing under snow. The speed at which it's falling and the way it bounces off of Felix's head makes it pretty clear that it's hail. It's not just annoying weather, it's literally *painful.* Really underscores how difficult it would be to put that weather out of mind.
Never this early- it’s been 10 seconds but 10/10 vid
I relate to Pepa on anxiety. When I first saw the movie and saw her reactions I started tearing up because it was like I was looking at myself. And I started talking to my therapist about it more
I love the fact that you mentioned distraction. For me personally if I have to keep discussing what is making me upset or someone brings it up I just feel worse and it’s better for me mentally and emotionally to either think of something else or do something else e.g. exercise, going to clothing stores, watching UA-cam videos unrelated to the problem
happy it works for you
I randomly searched for "Pepa analysis" because I just watched the movie and connected so strongly to her, and I stumbled upon your AMAZING VIDEO AND CHANNEL OH GOSH, you explain things in a wonderful way. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!
Awwww thanks so much. Hope you enjoy enough to stay
As someone who has both big emotions and super empathy I could relate to this a lot.
I appreciate your effort to match fashion wise. very cute!!
Thank you! 😊
She has been told not to feel negative emotions her whole life. No wonder she feels bad about feeling bad and gets into a cycle.
The end of the video reminded me of one of the lessons of Inside Out. That it's okay to be sad. Similar parallels here I think.
Everything little thing has a massive effect, and isn't timed or caused by movement on Pepa out of proportion with anything else has to deal with. Bruno thought it would cool them down, but Pepa doesn't have a direct choice in it so it was a huge reaction.
Someone on TikTok came up with a theory about how the encanto family represents all the different roles of a toxic family
that could very well be
I would love to see a series on banana fish characters! Sing, yut-lung, ash, shorter, eiji, etc.. That would be such an amazing series.
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THE DAY! I LOVE PEPA!
It makes me sad when she says "there wasn't a cloud in the sky" wich such joy and pride, like "look! I'm keeping it together!" And then Bruno came and "ruined" it. But she shouldn't be holding back her emotions to begin with
I love the videos and Georgia is so adorable!