It's hearkening us back to the things we need to be healthy. We need to count on other people. We need to have people we can call at 3 a.m. in a crisis and we like to do that in return for others. And so these social prescriptions that enable us to hold other people

accountable and be held accountable are I think just some of the most beautiful

expressions of humanity.

This is what we do.

We try to make it through together, we count on each other.

We notice when we're not there and we celebrate when we are.

So you know how so many of us go to the doctor and leave with a prescription for whatever

else us, usually in the form of the pill or capsule or shot or serum.

What if your health care provider looked you in the eye, then wrote you a prescription for dancing or nature or making art, often with others?

You'd probably look at them like they lost their minds and yet

some physicians are starting to do just that. It's called social prescribing and

the results have been astonishing.

My guest today is Julia Hott's, and she offers a powerful

rep prescription for what ails us and robs us of truly living good life.

In her groundbreaking book, The Connection Cure, us of truly living good life.

In her groundbreaking book, The Connection Cure, the prescriptive power of movement, nature,

art, service, and belonging, she introduces this radical concept of what she calls social

prescribing, addressing our deep human this radical concept of what she calls social prescribing.

Addressing our deep human needs through powerful and denotes like community gatherings,

art classes, nature immersion, volunteer service, and physical activity now being prescribed by doctors.

Julia is a solutions focused journalist based in New York.

Her stories have appeared in New York Times, Wired, Scientific American, and

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