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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Talk: Nature\, Art\, and Service as Medicine with J
 ournalist Julia Hotz
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DESCRIPTION:Be sure to jump start your new year with us as we chat virtual
 ly with journalist and author Julia Hotz about her book The Connection Cur
 e: The Prescriptive Power of Movement\, Nature\, Art\, Service\, and Belon
 ging.  .\nhttps://indianapolis.libnet.info/event/15263033
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><em>The Connection Cure</em>&nbsp\;combine
 s diligent science reporting\, moving patient success stories\, and surpri
 sing self-discovery to help us discover the lasting and life-changing powe
 r of social prescribing. Traditionally\, when we get sick\, health care pr
 ofessionals ask\, &ldquo\;What&rsquo\;s the matter with you?&rdquo\; But a
 round the world\, teams of doctors\, nurses\, therapists\, and social work
 ers have started to flip the script\, asking &ldquo\;What matters&nbsp\;to
 &nbsp\;you?&rdquo\;&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Science shows that social prescribing i
 s effective for treating symptoms of the modern world&rsquo\;s most common
  ailments&mdash\;depression\, ADHD\, addiction\, trauma\, anxiety\, chroni
 c pain\, dementia\, diabetes\, and loneliness. By integrating age-old medi
 cines like art\, nature\, movement\, and volunteer service into patient&rs
 quo\;s daily lives\, social prescriptions are radically changing health an
 d healthcare in more than thirty countries. Julia Hotz travels around the 
 world to survey them&nbsp\;&mdash\;sea-swimming lessons for depression\, &
 ldquo\;culture vitamins&rdquo\; for anxiety\,&nbsp\; a fishing club for AD
 HD\, a farm-based day-care for dementia\, a phone-buddy program for social
  isolation\, and many more.</p>\n<p>As the first book on social prescribin
 g\,&nbsp\;<em>The Connection Cure</em>&nbsp\;empowers you to find\, experi
 ence\, and implement this revolutionary medicine in your own community. Th
 e success stories Julia finds bring a long-known theory to life: if we can
  change our environment\, we can change our health. By reconnecting to wha
 t matters to us\, we can all start to feel better.</p>\n<p>Register today 
 to find out how you can use the wisdom of social prescribing to live your 
 best life!</p>\n<p><br /><strong>About the Author:&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p
 >Julia Hotz is a solutions focused journalist based in New York. Her stori
 es have appeared in&nbsp\;T<em>he&nbsp\;New York Times</em>\,&nbsp\;<em>WI
 RED</em>\, <em>Scientific American</em>\,&nbsp\;<em>The&nbsp\;Boston Globe
 </em>\,&nbsp\;<em>Time</em>\, and more. She helps other journalists report
  on the big new ideas changing the world at the Solutions Journalism Netwo
 rk.&nbsp\;The Connection Cure&nbsp\;is her first book.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><s
 trong>Disclaimer:&nbsp\;</strong>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>The views expressed by pr
 esenters are their own and their appearance in a program does not imply an
  endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Reference to any specif
 ic product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation 
 by Indianapolis Public Library.</p>\nhttps://indianapolis.libnet.info/even
 t/15263033
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