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Clear Intentions with Diane Boden

Healing Through Hobbies: The Science of Social Prescribing | Julia Hotz (EP33)

Clear Intentions with Diane Boden

Diane Boden

Self-improvement, How To, Kids & Family, Mental Health, Education, Parenting, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 952 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

What if the key to better health isn’t found in a pill bottle—but in community, creativity, and connection? Today I’m joined by author and researcher Julia Hotz to talk about her new book, The Connection Cure, where she uncovers how movement, nature, art, service, and belonging can transform our well-being. From dementia care farms in Norway to social prescribing programs around the world, Julia shares powerful, real-life stories of how people are healing through human connection. We dive into how prescribing joy, purpose, and relationships could radically shift how we think about healthcare. If you’ve ever felt like something’s missing from modern medicine, this conversation will open your eyes to what really makes us well.

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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. For her insights on social prescribing, she has been invited to advise health and community organizations, teach in medical schools, deliver talks at TEDx, university symposiums, and international conferences, and write editorials for publications including The Wall Street Journal, Slate, and more. She proudly serves on the board of Walk with a Doc, and as an advisor to Social Prescribing USA.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You talk about the idea of shifting from what's the matter with you to what matters to you.

0:06.3

That thought is transforming our health care and our health.

0:10.0

There's actually some data showing that up to 80% of our health is determined by factors in our environment.

0:17.1

Health isn't just about treating what's wrong with us.

0:19.5

It's also about creating environments where we feel really connected and joyful and purposeful and healthy.

0:27.4

Turns out, loneliness is equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. It's like an orange pill bottle. It's got a paint easel inside, a little plant, a little trumpet, a little dog. And it's

0:39.6

about doing exactly this. I talked to a man who was prescribed a cycling course for his diabetes,

0:45.9

who was able to come off his insulin, or an empty nester mother who was dealing with chronic

0:52.2

pain and gets prescribed the spot in this children's charity

0:55.7

volunteering for it. And that sort of healed her. According to studies in the UK, where this

1:00.8

has been more widely tested, is it's actually reducing pressure on health care, meaning people

1:07.5

are going to the doctors less after they've been given a social prescription.

1:12.8

What if the key to better health isn't found in a pill bottle, but in community, creativity, and connection?

1:19.2

Today I'm joined by author and researcher Julia Hatz to talk about her new book, The Connection Cure,

1:25.0

where she uncovers how movement, nature, art, service, and belonging

1:28.7

can transform our well-being. From dementia care farms in Norway to social prescribing programs

1:34.2

around the world, Julia shares powerful real-life stories of how people are healing through human

1:39.2

connection. We dive into how prescribing joy, purpose, and relationships could radically shift how we think about

1:45.5

health care. If you've ever felt like something's missing from modern medicine, this conversation

1:50.5

will open your eyes to what really makes us well. But before we get into the conversation,

1:55.3

I'd love for you just to pause the episode, take 30 seconds or less, and leave a rating and review

2:00.1

for the podcast. This just helps

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