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    The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service and Belonging
    The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service and Belonging
    The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service and Belonging
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service and Belonging

    Written by Julia Hotz

    Narrated by Lessa Lamb

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    About this audiobook

    In this combination of diligent science reporting, moving patient success stories, and surprising self-discovery, journalist Julia Hotz helps us discover lasting and life-changing medicine in our own communities.

    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?” Instead of solely pharmaceutical prescriptions, they offer ‘social prescriptions’—referrals to community activities and resources, like photography classes, gardening groups, and volunteering gigs.

    The results speak for themselves. 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. As health care’s de facto cycle of “diagnose-treat-repeat” reaches a breaking point, social prescribing has also proven to reduce patient wait times, lower hospitalization rates, save money, and reverse health worker burnout. And as a general sense of unwellness plagues more of us, social prescriptions can help us feel healthier than we’ve felt in years.

    As Hotz tours the globe to investigate the spread of social prescribing to over thirty countries, she meets people personifying its revolutionary potential: an aspiring novelist whose art workshop helps her cope with trauma symptoms and rediscover her joy; a policy researcher whose swimming course helps her taper off antidepressants and feel excited to wake up in the morning; an army vet whose phone conversations help him form his only true friendship; and dozens more. The success stories she finds 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJun 11, 2024
    ISBN9781797180892
    The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service and Belonging
    Author

    Julia Hotz

    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. 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.

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