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| Erin Hardin | Emotional Skin | Bright, symbolic patches depict how healthy habits and attitudes can be used to mend one's emotional skin. Half of the head is patched, the other half is without emotional skin. |
| Walter Moore | Under Fire | With PTSD, sometimes the troubles atart after the shooting stops. |
| Troy Crisswell | Inner Landscape | A landscape of the mind, if you will. The exact meaning of which will depend on the viewer's perspective. |
| Lillie Minnifield and Esther Levy | Put Your Brain in Gear | How amazing the human brain is and how it has been compared to many different objects and devices. Unlike machinery, the brain has no off switch. The brain is always active, even during sleep. |
| Christian Hamrick | The Blossom of Being | Shall we let the positve pull us towads the heavens, or will we let the negative break our backs? We must choose. We must choose. We must choose. |
| Kevin Whitman | Escape | Emotions have two options: to remain trapped within oneself or to escape. |
| Sandra Holm | Diary of a Housewife Going Mad | Career women plus homemakers equals stress overload. This design asks the question, "How do women have it all, do it all, and deal with stress in their everyday life?" |
| Don Stewart | Head Case | The briefcase represents stress commonly encountered in corporate America, and its effects on mood, behavior, and physical well-being. Insight provides the combination to a healthier future. |
| Sue Ellen Brown | Mental Blocks | The block wall has a dual meaning, representing the mental blocks that keep us from growing and developng, and the façade we must erect to shield ourselves from emotional trauma. |
| Corinne Cox | Creative Whirling | Every human has creative talents that whirl within. Creativity is a force that begins building momentum at birth and continues to develop complexity with experiences throughout a person's life. |
| Lillie Minnifield and Esther Levy | Out of Memory | Represents memory loss and recall--the post-it or sticky notes represent one of the most used items to help us remember what many of us would surely forget during the course of our busy day and throughout our lives. |
| Barbara Morgan | Shadows from the Past: Exploring the Gene Pool | The collaged imagery comes from a series of my work entitled Shadows from the Past. The intent is to evoke contemplation on the impact of our individual geneaology. |
| Sandra Holm | Food--Drug of Choice | This design calls attention to the addiction of food. Many people are affected by this misunderstood addiction leading to obesity and depression. |
| Christy Falligant | Patterns of Behavior | Highlights the integrated nature of our own history that shapes our patterns of behavior. Vintage sewing patterns represent the layers of our experiences...our whole selves. |
| Fran Johnson Nagy | Open an Eye--Release your Imagination | With every day, one might see a new way to free cumbersome thoughts through the imagination |
| Palo Pallas | A Set Goal (a poem) | Artist's poem on the head describes steps for goal achievement. Follow the numbers beginning each line at tip of hair strand, and read the words of the poem, following the separately colored curl, moving to next number. This allows easier reading of poem. |
| Laurie Kramer and Beth Pierpoint | Explore Your World: Alabama the Beautiful and Open your Mind | Exploring the beautiful state of Alabama through movement and exercise will combat depression and chronic pain, by relaxing your body and expanding your mind. |
| Tracie Noles-Ross | Back to Nature | Unstructured play and exposure to nature is essential for a child's healthy physical and emotional development. |
| Deb Paradise | Snakes in Her Head (Medusa Redux) | Medusa's story touched on themes of rape, jealousy, illegitimate pregnancy, beauty, betrayal, rejection and rage. Today's teens' survival depends on inner resilience as they face everyday challenges of stress, pressure, danger, sexuality, and often an em |
| Janice Kluge and Byron Sonnier | The Calm Before the Storm | Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder that can cause extreme mood swings. It affects not only those with the disease but the immediate family members of those suffering from depression or mania. |
