Good day and welcome to episode 263 of Live Happy Now.

This is Paula Phelps and this week we're going to imagine living in a world that has been

plagued by a great tragedy. The world as you know is gone. All the stores are closed and you

can't see your friends. Sound familiar? Interestingly enough,

we're talking about Shadow's Edge, a mobile game and lifestyle platform that was created to help

teens and young adults build resilience skills. Today, we're talking with Rosemary Lockhorst,

one of the creative minds behind this innovative platform. Let's listen as she explains how

this game has helped teens and young adults deal with chronic illness, anxiety, and now a

pandemic. Rosemary, welcome to Live Happy Now. Thank you. I'm very flattered to be here. Well, we have a lot to talk

about because you've got so many different components to Shadow's Edge.

But before we start talking about those components, can you explain the game to us?

So Shadow's Edge is a free mobile game that is helping teens and young adults build emotional resilience.

And the game does that through

self-help content that is delivered right where they are on their devices playing games.

So we incorporate principles of narrative therapy and artistic expression and have turned that

into a game to meet them where they're at.

Can you explain what narrative therapy is?

Narrative therapy is the principle that if you tell your story and talk about what you're

going through, that you actually start to work on it internally.

There's a bunch of research obviously associated with it, but the idea is that, for example,

if I've had a trauma and I talk about it various times

with potentially even with different people, that I start incorporating what has happened to me

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