Joanna Cheek is an award-winning clinical professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia, psychiatrist, journalist, author, speaker, meditation teacher, and psychotherapist. She sees mental health struggles as symptoms of the imbalances in our wider systems, hoping to decrease the stigma that is too often misplaced on the individuals who suffer rather than the ailing society around them. In addition to caring for individuals, she hopes to heal the harmful dynamics of domination, division, and indifference within our collective systems, teaching that collective-care is self-care.