Jump start your new year with journalist and author Julia Hotz during a virtual chat on Tuesday, January 20 at 2:00pm centered around 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. 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.
For The Connection Cure, Hotz traveled around the world to survey them, detailing the success stories to 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 and, The Connection Cure empowers you to find, experience, and implement this revolutionary medicine in your own community.
Register today to submit questions to the author and find out how you, too, can use the wisdom of social prescribing to live your best life!
