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Online Author Talk With Julia Hotz

Nature, Art and Service as Medicine

Join us online for a chat with author Julia Hotz about her book "The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging," which combines science reporting, patient stories and self-discovery to help readers discover the power of social prescribing. Adults. Register to get a link. A recording will also be available for later viewing.

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Join us as we chat virtually with journalist and author Julia Hotz about her book "The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging."

"The Connection Cure" combines diligent science reporting, moving patient success stories and surprising self-discovery to help us discover the lasting and life-changing power of social prescribing. Traditionally, when we get sick, health care professionals ask, “What’s the matter with you?” But around the world, teams of doctors, nurses, therapists and social workers have started to flip the script, asking “What matters to you?”

Science shows that social prescribing is effective for treating symptoms of the modern world’s most common ailments — depression, ADHD, addiction, trauma, anxiety, chronic pain, dementia, diabetes and loneliness. By integrating age-old medicines like art, nature, movement and volunteer service into patients' daily lives, social prescriptions are radically changing health and healthcare in more than thirty countries. Julia Hotz travels around the world to survey them — sea-swimming lessons for depression, “culture vitamins” for anxiety, a fishing club for ADHD, a farm-based day-care for dementia, a phone-buddy program for social isolation and many more.

As the first book on social prescribing, "The Connection Cure" empowers you to find, experience and implement this revolutionary medicine in your own community. The 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 what matters to us, we can all start to feel better.

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About the Author: Julia Hotz is a solutions-focused journalist based in New York. Her stories have appeared in The New York Times, WIRED, Scientific American, The Boston Globe, Time and more. She helps other journalists report on the big new ideas changing the world at the Solutions Journalism Network. "The Connection Cure" is her first book

This event is part of DBRL's Online Author Series, supported by David Lile honorarium funds. A recording will also be available for later viewing on the author series site.

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