Julia Hotz, Author of THE CONNECTION CURE: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging

Julia Hotz, Author of THE CONNECTION CURE: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging How over-medicated are we? How much of what ails us could be healed by going back to the ways we evolved to live?
 Julia Hotz is the author of a book looking to answer questions like these. "The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging" is the very first book to make the case for social prescribing. Hotz is a solutions focused journalist whose stories have appeared in The New York Times, WIRED, Scientific American, The Boston Globe, Time, and more. In The Connection Cure, she presents the history of how we came to rely on medical intervention for mental health challenges in the first place, and outlines how we are neglecting ourselves deeper into unrest nearly every day. Without discounting the validity of pharmaceutical medicine in some cases, she is making a case for a much more complete picture of what the cure for our collectively rising anxiety and depression might actually look like, and how much of it we may actually be able to control. On today’s episode we are talking about the origins of SSRIs, the definition of social prescribing, and the perils of isolation, in all its forms. From directed attention fatigue to quiet fascination, Hotz is full of suggestions for how we can better manage our minds, with and without medication. To hear her tell it…there may just be hope for all of us…yet. Subscribe today! www.TheReleasePodcast.com