COMIC JOURNALING

How to Reason With Your Emotions Through Comic Journaling

Ana Krajinovic
Ana’s stories

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Beat procrastination and other struggles through humor and visualization

Created by the author, Ana Krajinović (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

We’ve all been there. Whether you are struggling with a mental disorder or not, you have most likely struggled with procrastination at some point in your life. In fact, maybe you are also struggling with negative self-talk, which only makes everything so much harder. In addition to therapy and all the other good old professional help out there, my comic journaling method, suited for both artists and non-artists, is here to help further!

I first described comic journaling for mental health in this article, also linked below. The main idea behind comic journaling is to visualize something that is bothering you by drawing it in a very simple way and then using humor against it. And the whole point of this method is to be fast and not necessarily super pretty, so don’t worry about your artistic skills and draw those stick men and women.

In this article, I will show you how you can expand this method beyond just…

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Ana Krajinovic
Ana’s stories

A linguist and comic researcher, PhD, and comic creator writing about mental health, languages, creativity, and life stuff (also on anakrajinovic.substack.com)