Celeste: Growing Stronger & Healing Anxiety | Screen Therapy

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Celeste is a game that encourages us to think about our own mental health and to fight for Celeste on her journey to wellness.
By playing Celeste mindfully, we’re embarking on our own climbs to appreciate the importance of self-compassion, self-acceptance, resilience, and the growth mindset that we can overcome our struggles, if we work with ourselves. We’re reminded that we should anticipate and budget for setbacks or mistakes in our journeys for self-growth. Just as we need to fail a lot to get good at playing the game, we need to armor ourselves with the understanding that we’ll make lots of mistakes and have a lot of difficult days on our own mental health journeys, too.
I highly recommend this game to anyone who might need a little practice in failing well, withholding negative judgment, building resilience, and embracing the prickly, scared parts of themselves with compassion and acceptance.

Timestamp Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:02 1. Mechanics: Flow and Resilience
02:23 The “Flow Experience” + Resilience-Building
06:50 Practicing a Growth Mindset
07:49 Defending Assist Mode
09:52 2. Narrative: Mental Health
12:50 Hedonic vs Eudaimonic Impact
14:06 Elements of Well-Being
14:44 Putting it all together!

I collaborated with Zoltiboi for this video: “HOW GAMES TEACH US EMPATHY”
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Sources:
Reer, F., & Quandt, T. (2020). Digital Games and Well-Being: An Overview. Video Games and Well-being, 1-21.
Bartsch A., & Oliver, M.B. (2016) Appreciation of Meaningful Entertainment Experiences and Eudaimonic Wellbeing." The Routledge Handbook of Media Use and Well-Being. Routledge.
Dweck, C. (2016). What having a “growth mindset” actually means. Harvard Business Review, 13, 213-226.
Csikszentmihalyi, M., & Csikzentmihaly, M. (1990). Flow: The psychology of optimal experience.
Huta, V. (2017). An overview of hedonic and eudaimonic well-being concepts.

Music:
Celeste OST - Lena Raine

Outro/Screen Therapy Theme:
Never Really Gone by Stuart Bateman
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