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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Talk with Journalist Julia Hotz
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 Be sure to jump start your new year with us as we chat vi
 rtually with journalist and author Julia Hotz about her book&nbsp\;The Con
 nection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement\, Nature\, Art\, Service\
 , and Belonging.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;
 The Connection Cure&nbsp\;combines dilige
 nt science reporting\, moving patient success stories\, and surprising sel
 f-discovery to help us discover the lasting and life-changing power of soc
 ial prescribing. Traditionally\, when we get sick\, health care profession
 als ask\, “What’s the matter with you?” But around the world\, teams
  of doctors\, nurses\, therapists\, and social workers have started to fli
 p the script\, asking “What matters&nbsp\;to&nbsp\;you?”&nbsp\;
 Scie
 nce shows that social prescribing is effective for treating symptoms of th
 e 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 voluntee
 r service into patient’s daily lives\, social prescriptions are radicall
 y changing health and healthcare in more than thirty countries. Julia Hotz
  travels around the world to survey them&nbsp\;—sea-swimming lessons for
  depression\, “culture vitamins” for anxiety\,&nbsp\; a fishing club f
 or ADHD\, a farm-based day-care for dementia\, a phone-buddy program for s
 ocial isolation\, and many more.
 As the first book on social prescribing
 \,&nbsp\;The Connection Cure&nbsp\;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 ou
 r environment\, we can change our health. By reconnecting to what matters 
 to us\, we can all start to feel better.
 Register today to find out how 
 you can use the wisdom of social prescribing to live your best life!
 Abo
 ut the Author:&nbsp\;Julia Hotz is a solutions focused journalist based in
  New York. Her stories have appeared in&nbsp\;The&nbsp\;New York Times\,&n
 bsp\;WIRED\, Scientific American\,&nbsp\;The&nbsp\;Boston Globe\,&nbsp\;Ti
 me\, and more. She helps other journalists report on the big new ideas cha
 nging the world at the Solutions Journalism Network.&nbsp\;The Connection 
 Cure&nbsp\;is her first book.
 
 
 
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 The views expressed 
 by presenters are their own and their appearance in a program does not imp
 ly an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Reference to any s
 pecific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommenda
 tion by Mountainside Free Public Library.
 When you register\, you will r
 eceive an email with the link to the live feed. You may also watch past re
 cordings at any time.
 https://libraryc.org/mountainsidelibrary
 
 
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