Discover the top-rated and widely embraced applications designed to assist in identifying and managing emotions, feelings, and negative thought patterns. Through the nurturing of new, healthy neural pathways in the brain, these apps pave the way for a more comprehensive and improved way of life, enabling heightened calmness and serenity.

1. HOW WE FEEL

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How We Feel is a free app created by scientists, designers, engineers, and therapists to help people better understand their emotions and find strategies to help them navigate their emotions in the moment. Conceived in conjunction with Yale University’s Center for Emotional Intelligence and based on the work of Dr Marc Brackett, How We Feel helps people find the right word to describe how they feel while tracking their sleep, exercise, and health trends using HealthKit in order to spot patterns over time.
Whether you are downloading this app in order to build better relationships, make your emotions to work for you, not against you, improve how you handle stress and anxiety or simply to feel better, How We Feel will help you identify patterns through daily HealthKit tracking and find emotional regulation strategies that will work for you. The How We Feel friends feature allows you to share how you feel with the people you trust most in real time, strengthening your most important relationships.
Filled with step-by-step video strategies you can do in as little as one minute on themes like 
“Change Your Thinking” to help you address negative thought patterns with cognitive strategies; 
“Move Your Body” to express and release emotions through movement strategies;
“Be Mindful” to gain perspective and minimize the negative impact of misunderstood emotions    
  with mindfulness strategies; 
“Reach Out” to build intimacy and trust, two important tools for emotional wellbeing, with social 
  strategies.

2. INSIGHT TIMER (Kristen’s #1 personal favorite!)

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A page of the insight timer app.