As our world clashes and collapses around us, it’s no surprise we’re feeling an acute effect on our mental health. Psychiatrist, UBC Faculty of Medicine professor, and mental health speaker Dr. Joanna Cheek joins us on Granville Island to offer a survival guide of personal and collective mental health tools for our disordered world, in conversation with world renowned physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté, who wrote the book’s foreword. In her new release, It’s Not You, It’s the World, Dr. Cheek argues that we’re not broken or doing it wrong when we’re stressed or struggling. As our systems are pushed to the brink of collapse, self-improvement alone neglects the source of our suffering. Instead, to care for ourselves, we must heal the imbalances in our wider systems that keep making us all sick. With practical action to empower, connect, and instill hope in the reader, It’s Not You, It’s the World is the go-to guide for anyone feeling depressed, anxious, enraged, numb, or sick from adapting to a world on fire. Join us for an evening of recovery in community, as Cheek speaks with Maté on-stage, followed by an audience Q+A. Books will be for sale at the event from Upstart & Crow, with a book signing after the talk.