🛡️ Student Mental Health Series *coming soon
Course overview
Lesson Overview

19.14 – Using Comics and Animation to Cope: Comics and animation merge humor, imagination, and vulnerability to make tough emotions less heavy. Through characters, panels, and exaggerated moments, you can explore feelings that might feel too raw to confront directly. Drawing yourself as a hero, monster, or shape-shifting figure allows safe distance between you and the pain. The creative exaggeration brings laughter into spaces where shame once lived. Animation’s movement mirrors emotional motion—how thoughts loop, repeat, or grow brighter over time. As you watch your story unfold frame by frame, you realize that even dark emotions can evolve into learning and self-expression. You control pacing, color, and dialogue, which restores a sense of agency over your own story. Comics teach that expression can be playful and profound at once. When your feelings have characters, you stop being trapped by them—you become their author, and that changes everything.

About this course

Trauma-informed mental wellness lessons that help students manage emotions, build resilience, and stay safe in real-world situations—like bullying, grief, violence, and poverty. Built for schools, youth programs, and Medicaid-compliant services.

This course includes:
  • Step-by-step guidance for handling social pressure, conflict, and unsafe situations
  • Stories and messages that encourage students to speak up, stay safe, and take control of their future
  • Flexible learning options for classrooms, after-school programs, and independent use

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