How well do you really know your own emotions? Can you accurately describe when you are feeling depressed? Anxious? Overjoyed? What about some of the reasons you might be feeling this way? It’s okay if you’re unsure. Most people are relatively unfamiliar with their emotions. In our emotion-phobic culture, we…

The aptly named “aesthetic turn in mental health” has brought with it the reevaluation of fractals as an important factor in generating resilience and mental well-being. — First coined in 1975 by mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, the term “fractal” denotes complex, visually chaotic patterns that generate an infinite amount of copies self-repeating across different scales through a process called recursion.

When we are afraid the heart races, breathing becomes rapid, the mouth dries up, muscles tense, and palms become sweaty. We may feel anxious, stressed, panicked or nervous, but emotion recognition does not end here. …