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\nBe sure to jump st art your new year with us as we chat virtually with journalist and author Julia Hotz about her book \;The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Powe r of Movement\, Nature\, Art\, Service\, and Belonging. \; \;
\ nThe Connection Cure \;combines diligent science reporting\, moving patient success stories\, and surprising self-discovery to help us discov er the lasting and life-changing power of social prescribing. Traditionall y\, when we get sick\, health care professionals ask\, &ldquo\;What&rsquo\ ;s the matter with you?&rdquo\; But around the world\, teams of doctors\, nurses\, therapists\, and social workers have started to flip the script\, asking &ldquo\;What matters \;to \;you?&rdquo\; \;
\nSc ience shows that social prescribing is effective for treating symptoms of the modern world&rsquo\;s most common ailments&mdash\;depression\, ADHD\, addiction\, trauma\, anxiety\, chronic pain\, dementia\, diabetes\, and lo neliness. By integrating age-old medicines like art\, nature\, movement\, and volunteer service into patient&rsquo\;s daily lives\, social prescript ions are radically changing health and healthcare in more than thirty coun tries. Julia Hotz travels around the world to survey them \;&mdash\;se a-swimming lessons for depression\, &ldquo\;culture vitamins&rdquo\; for a nxiety\, \; a fishing club for ADHD\, a farm-based day-care for dement ia\, a phone-buddy program for social isolation\, and many more.
\nA s the first book on social prescribing\, \;The Connection Cure \;e mpowers you to find\, experience\, and implement this revolutionary medici ne in your own community. The success stories Julia finds bring a long-kno wn theory to life: if we can change our environment\, we can change our he alth. By reconnecting to what matters to us\, we can all start to feel bet ter.
\nRegister today to find out how you can use the wisdom of soci al prescribing to live your best life!
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About the Aut
hor: \;Julia Hotz is a solutions focused journalist based in
New York. Her stories have appeared in \;The \;New York Times\,&nb
sp\;WIRED\, Scientific American\, \;The \;Boston Globe\, \;Tim
e\, and more. She helps other journalists report on the big new ideas chan
ging the world at the Solutions Journalism Network. \;The Connection C
ure \;is her first book.