There are different problems people may face while working on their education, such as academic pressures and expectations. These are big stressors in their lives and it can negatively affect their mental health and eventually the quality of their work. Mental health difficulties affecting one's work not only to students but artists as well. With the researchers being college students they are also artists. They noted the issues artists may have regrading mental health that are also linked with both academic and artistic struggles.

In order to help these struggles, the researchers proposed to create a product called "Emotionary". This product is an activity book that uses art therapy to help creatives, students, and anyone who may need a creative outlet to release emotions that they normally cannot express through words. It provides a variety of activities with creative prompts and exercises to help them destress with also spreading awareness to a streotype within the creative industry that is linked to mental health and help refute it. While Emotionary is not intended to replace any medical care or counseling that an individual may need, it may help many understand that having a creative hobby may help aid one's mental health.