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Be sure to jump start your new year with us as we chat with journalist and award-winning author, Julia Hotz, about her first book, The Connection Cure.
Join the conversation with journalist and author Julia Hotz about her book, The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging. This book 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. 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 patient’s daily lives, social prescriptions are radically changing health and healthcare in more than thirty countries.
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.
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