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“When trauma is triggered, you don’t act your age. You act the age the wound was created.”

- Dr. Gabor Maté

PHYSICIAN & BESTSELLING AUTHOR

THIS SITE IS FULL OF CARTOONS BECAUSE

Cartoons Speak Directly To YOUR INNER CHILD

Reconnect With Your Inner Child

When an old wound is activated, the part of you that was hurt often shows up first, and this younger part doesn’t respond to lectures or logic. It responds to play, imagination, and simple visual cues. Cartoons gently bypass the analytical mind and connect directly with your younger self, making it easier to recognize feelings, soften defenses, and begin healing.

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This Site Was Lovingly Created by Author-Artist Anne Kubitsky

Anne Kubitsky is an award-winning creative professional with formal training in biology, philosophy, art, and trauma-informed healing tools. For the last 15 years, she has been on a mission to make mental health resources more accessible to the public. In addition to maintaining this website, Anne runs Look for the Good Project, Inc., a nonprofit organization which offers community-care programming to elementary schools. 

Anne's Background:

+ B.A. in Biological Sciences & Philosophy, Smith College; Inducted into Sigma Xi, International Honor Society for Scientists & Engineers

+ 30 credits in Illustration & Graphic Design, Paier College of Art

+ 25 year apprenticeship with counselor & teacher Ruth Robins, who was mentored by award-winning psychotherapist, Dr. Thomas Hora

+ Certificate in Somatic Embodiment & Regulation Strategies

+ 15 years experience running "Look for the Good" campaigns in communities across the country, which generated 3 million glimmers of gladness, and an endorsement from President George H.W. Bush

Although Anne's work has been praised by many therapists and social workers, she is not a mental health professional. Please understand the limitations of her work and seek professional help if you need extra support.

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This Site is The Brain Child of Author-Artist Anne Kubitsky 

Anne Kubitsky is an award-winning creative professional with formal training in biology, philosophy, art, and trauma-informed healing tools. For the last 15 years, she has been on a mission to make mental health resources more accessible to the public. In addition to maintaining this website, Anne runs Look for the Good Project, Inc., a nonprofit organization which offers community-care programming to schools. 

 Although Anne's work has been praised by many therapists and social workers, she is not a mental health professional. Please understand the limitations of her work and seek professional help if you need extra support.

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Anne Created This Site In Pandemic Isolation

In 2020, Anne found herself starting over in a small, Southern town, far away from her Northeastern roots. Alone with her cat and grieving the unexpected loss of several loved ones, she began exploring ways to expand her emotion vocabulary and learn practical tools for calming her nervous system. What started as a personal search for steadiness soon grew into a project designed to help others regulate, reconnect, and find their strength.

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These Are Anne's Original Concepts

Anne came up with the "I'm Fine" Box, G.A.S, her cast of emotion characters, the "Battery of Human Needs", and many other visual concepts to help unify different therapeutic models, and make important psychological models easier to understand. 

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Special Thanks To Anne's Creative Team

Anne is so grateful for ANMP & JSM Capital, a small group of talented animators in Europe who helped her create 3D versions of her emotion characters. Collectively, this small team has worked on a variety of well known films: Maleficent, Loki, Wonder Woman 1984, The Lion King, and The Witches. With Anne serving as Art Director, ANMP and JSM helped her pose and animate her emotion characters so that she had a variety of image assets to use in her digital illustrations. As the owner of these images, Anne has freely licensed many of the assets to Look for the Good Project so that elementary schools can benefit from this content too.

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Deb Dana & Polyvagal Theory

Deb Dana is a therapist who helped translate Polyvagal Theory into practical tools that help people understand how their nervous system shifts between safety and shutdown, and how to gently guide it back toward calm and regulation.

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Internal Family Systems

Internal Family Systems is a therapeutic approach that teaches people to understand their mind as a system of different inner parts (protectors, wounded parts, managers, and a wise core self) and learn how to work with these parts.

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Somatic Experiencing

Somatic Experiencing is a therapeutic approach that helps people understand how trauma lives in the body so that they can learn how to notice, release, and regulate physical sensations so the nervous system can experience calm.

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Ron Kurtz & Hakomi Therapy

Ron Kurtz developed Hakomi Method, a therapeutic approach that uses mindfulness and gentle awareness of body sensations to help people uncover unconscious beliefs and transform patterns that shape how they experience themselves and others.

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A 14-Day Online Program

Build greater calm, resilience, and emotional flexibility in just 14 days. This guided video challenge introduces simple, body-based practices designed to strengthen and tone the vagus nerve— the key nerve which helps your nervous system shift out of stress and back into balance. Through short daily exercises, you’ll learn how to calm your body, regulate difficult emotions, and build the autonomic flexibility that supports better focus, connection, and overall well-being. Enter your email to be the first to access this offer.

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