Oh, hey, it's the guy at the falafel truck who gives you extra hummus Allie Ward. So if you come to

ologies for the toads, but you stay for the science-based self-help advice, this one delivers

with info on how to lift your blues with some suggestions that make us healthier and calmer,

less anxious, and more present. This episode may alter the course of your life. So this

guest is an award-winning author and a journalist who has written for Time, Wired, Scientific American,

The New York Times, and she spent several years interviewing doctors and patients and digging into

published research for a book that has been praised by Harvard University as the best

public health book of the year. And it's backed by a bunch of doctors who are like, yes, this.

And when I got a heads up on her book, The Connection Cure, the prescriptive power of movement,

nature, art, service, and belonging, I was like, is this bullshit? And then I looked

into the bibliography and I wanted to chat with her for selfish reasons because it ripped. I was

like, this is great. So I figured you might want to hear it too. And hence, an episode was very

much in order. Actually, two episodes. So part one and two, because this interview itself is almost two

hours long. It's worth two installments. Trust me. So social prescribing, it has its own ology. And sure,

I've found it used only one time in the scientific literature, but the field is well established.

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