Nature, Art, and Service as Medicine with Journalist Julia Hotz

Nature, Art, and Service as Medicine with Journalist Julia Hotz

Jump start your new year with journalist and author Julia Hotz about The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging. 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 patient’s daily lives, social prescriptions are radically changing health and healthcare in more than 30 countries. As the first book on social prescribing, The Connection Cure empowers you to find, experience, and implement this revolutionary medicine in your own community. By reconnecting to what matters to us, we can all start to feel better

Julia Hotz is a journalist based in New York. Her stories have appeared in The New York Times, Scientific American, The Boston Globe, TIME Magazine, and more. The Connection Cure is her first book.

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