Coltan Scrivner

I've done some studies showing that how engaging in scary play might actually help you build emotional resilience, in particular to fear and anxiety, which makes sense, right?

If you're

Growing up as a kid and you never experience fear, never experience anxiety, right?

You never do any scary play.

You don't watch scary movies.

You don't play scary games.

Your parents shield you and protect you.

You're just not going to be practiced in regulating fear, regulating anxiety.

And so when you grow up and the adult world hits you in the face and you start feeling fear and anxiety in uncontrollable ways.

you're not gonna be well-suited to regulate those emotions, right?

But if you engaged with scary play as a kid, you would have developed those emotion regulation skills for down-regulating your fear, down-regulating your anxiety, dealing with uncertainty.

And it doesn't mean you have to go and watch Saw as a 13-year-old.

You just need to engage with things that scare you, right?

So that you feel truly afraid, truly anxious, but still safe.

And you have the opportunity to regulate those emotions.

And then you just get good at regulating those emotions as a by-product rather of doing that.

They were an aggressor or something.

Are you referencing the Devil's Den?

No.

So that's exactly a story that happened a few months ago.