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X-WR-CALDESC: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.  \n\nThe Connection Cure combines diligent science reporting\, movin
 g patient success stories\, and surprising self-discovery to help us disco
 ver the lasting and life-changing power of social prescribing. Traditional
 ly\, 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 matter
 s to you?” \n\nScience shows that social prescribing is effective for trea
 ting 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 countrie
 s. Julia Hotz travels around the world to survey them —sea-swimming lesson
 s for depression\, “culture vitamins” for anxiety\,  a fishing club for AD
 HD\, a farm-based day-care for dementia\, a phone-buddy program for social
  isolation\, and many more.\n\nAs the first book on social prescribing\, T
 he Connection Cure empowers you to find\, experience\, and implement this 
 revolutionary medicine in your own community. The success stories Julia fi
 nds 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 a
 ll start to feel better.\n\nRegister today to find out how you can use the
  wisdom of social prescribing to live your best life!\n\nAbout the Author:
  Julia Hotz is a solutions focused journalist based in New York. Her stori
 es 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.\n\nThe views expressed by presenters a
 re their own and their appearance in a program does not imply an endorseme
 nt of them or any entity they represent. Reference to any specific product
  or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by Massanu
 tten Regional Library.
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DESCRIPTION:Be sure to jump start your new year with us as we chat virtuall
 y with journalist and author Julia Hotz about her book The Connection Cure
 : The Prescriptive Power of Movement\, Nature\, Art\, Service\, and Belong
 ing.  \n\nThe Connection Cure combines diligent science reporting\, moving
  patient success stories\, and surprising self-discovery to help us discov
 er the lasting and life-changing power of social prescribing. Traditionall
 y\, 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?” \n\nScience shows that social prescribing is effective for treat
 ing 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
 . Julia Hotz travels around the world to survey them —sea-swimming lessons
  for depression\, “culture vitamins” for anxiety\,  a fishing club for ADH
 D\, a farm-based day-care for dementia\, a phone-buddy program for social 
 isolation\, and many more.\n\nAs the first book on social prescribing\, Th
 e Connection Cure empowers you to find\, experience\, and implement this r
 evolutionary medicine in your own community. The success stories Julia fin
 ds bring a long-known theory to life: if we can change our environment\, w
 e can change our health. By reconnecting to what matters to us\, we can al
 l start to feel better.\n\nRegister today to find out how you can use the 
 wisdom of social prescribing to live your best life!\n\nAbout the Author: 
 Julia Hotz is a solutions focused journalist based in New York. Her storie
 s 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.\n\nThe views expressed by presenters ar
 e their own and their appearance in a program does not imply an endorsemen
 t of them or any entity they represent. Reference to any specific product 
 or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by Massanut
 ten Regional Library.
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LOCATION:https://libraryc.org/mrlib/105680
SUMMARY:Virtual Author Talk: Julia Hotz
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