We discuss all things Bodies, Health and our In-Between Worlds Part 2. The journey we undertake as individuals is linked in how we carve spaces collectively threading the needle to weave our own stories and our land.

Jan-Ming Lee is a uk artist of Chinese descent working with dance, movement and sound. Most recently she has been facilitating, devising as well as performing for projects that relate to building collective spaces for us to tell our stories in all our complexities. Araceli Camargo is a cognitive neuroscientist and science communicator. She was the lab director at The Centric Lab (which is in partnership with UCL) to explore how people interact and are impacted by the physical world around them. Araceli's science communication focuses on the Future of Work, Neurodiversity, and Women's Health.

A passage in the Huangdi Neijing (ancient book of Chinese medicine, as well as a major book of Daoist theory and lifestyle) reads: ‘When anger abounds and does not end, then it will harm the mind.’ Just as in the case of tools or machines, there are ways in which we can use our bodies that overtax or harm them, and thus cause injury and illness (including mental illness), according to ancient Chinese scholars. This is an astute insight into the nature of illness. 

― Psyche Magazine’s article, Chinese philosophy has long known that mental health is communal.