2023-09-08 23:00:00
In life, Catherine Lejeune is driven by a quest for meaning and a passion for content. Since the start of her career, she has worked on numerous magazines which aimed to provide us with tools: Cultivated and well-behaved, Right to speak, 1045 rue des Parlementaires or Above all.
Photo provided by Matili Clark
For several years, she acted as director of society magazines for Télé-Québec then as content director for Juste pour laughs. She has just returned from a world tour which took her for a year to the four corners of the planet where she did volunteer work. Since then, she has devoted herself to writing people’s stories for the company My Biography and agreed to dive back into the world of television with Well in my head. This magazine allows people to make informed choices when faced with a delicate subject where it is important to separate fact from fiction.
How do you feel this project fills a need?
Well-being is the topic of the hour. The idea was to unite health and science because there is no place where researchers, specialists and scientists are given a voice. We have the opportunity to bring out research that will perhaps change things. Since the pandemic, many trends have been offered to us on the web. Several are questionable. And anyone can become a specialist. We give viewers the opportunity to form an idea, to be equipped to make their choices without telling them what to do.
What limits have you given yourself so as not to fall into overly scientific discourse or futility?
It’s important for our broadcaster to have depth of content without falling into commonplaces or pop psycho. Pascale (Lévesque) and Martin (Carli) quickly adopted a warm tone that speaks to the world. We didn’t want scientific language aimed at scientists. We look for subjects that affect the greatest number of people and for which there are references. And we dissect the phenomenon to understand it better. Heartbreak, for example: we discovered that Quebec researchers are currently interested in it. It’s about well-being. It’s fascinating to understand what goes through our heads when we experience one, to understand how we cope and why it remains a pathetic memory for some.
Why is the experimentation by two journalists (Simon Coutu and Mayssa Ferah) important?
Many practices come to us from social media. We wanted them to come and explain to us how it works, to test them, to tell us what they experienced. They are also our gateway to seeing specialists. Personality tests, Tree Hugging, the SCMR, these are phenomena that we wanted to understand. But the result is not important, it is the experience that counts. Sometimes there is nothing scientific about these tests, but as one of our researchers says: is science always obliged to explain everything? If they are not harmful, why not?
Throughout your research, are there areas in which Quebec stands out in terms of well-being?
There are subjects that may seem trivial. Floating baths for example. At the beginning, we thought we were being very critical. Then we realized that in Quebec we were the first to have analyzed the effects of floating baths on concussions. We are very advanced on everything related to Alzheimer’s and dementia. We only had 12 shows to do, but we quickly realized that well-being is an inexhaustible subject.
We are in the age of misinformation. How do you choose topics to make a difference?
Everything related to the brain and psychology concerns everyone. For our first show, we knew straight away that we had to address the stress of going back to school. Sleep is a subject that we haven’t finished talking about. And there are all the ethical questions that are essential today. When we observe, for example, everything that is offered to us in the quest for rejuvenation. It ranges from products to interventions, including diets and invasive surgeries. Well-being touches each of our five senses and has an impact on our mental health. It’s important to have reflections as a society, and to make good decisions to get better.
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