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#118 - Navigating Friendship Struggles Through Social Prescribing with Julia Hotz
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"Social" prescriptions from your doctor? Yes! What if for the sake of our mental and physical health doctors wrote prescriptions for cycling groups, fishing clubs, or volunteer positions on a farm? Those are real scenarios in Julia Hotz's THE CONNECTION CURE: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service and Belonging, "the first book exploring the science, stories, and spread of social prescribing."
In today's episode, a perfect follow-up to last week's episode on the importance of hobbies for the empty nest and retirement, Julia and I discussed these activity-based and creative "medical" solutions to the post-30s friendship struggles that are so commonplace nowadays as people live far from previous friends and family, work remotely, and spend more time than ever on screens.
WHAT IS SOCIAL PRESCRIBING? In Julia's words, "Social, in the public health context, is about everything in a person's environment from where they live, to how they cope with stress, to what their job is like, and whether it fulfills them. All of these things boil down to what are called your social determinants of health. We have data showing that up to 80% of our health is determined by these social factors. What social prescribing then refers to is any non-medical community-based activity or resource that is prescribed to improve your health and well-being."
MY FAVORITE QUOTE IN THE BOOK: “This book is guided by real patients' lived experiences, but everyone's lived experience is different. In fact, that's what social prescribing is all about. Instead of what's the matter with you, a fixed list of symptoms, it focuses on what matters to you."
MEET JULIA HOTZ
Julia Hotz is a solutions journalist and author of THE CONNECTION CURE: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service and Belonging (Simon & Schuster). The book has been featured in NBC, BBC, Scientific American, NPR, GOOP, The Good Life Project and more. Find Julia on socialprescribing.co and Instagram.
LINKS MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE
- Study showing we lose half of our friends every seven years.
- Skip the Small Talk events are grounded in psychology research that help strangers get to know each other and help with practicing vulnerability in conversation.
- Dear Nina: The (Facebook) Group where we have been compiling a great list of hobbies have started and groups people have joined.
Let's connect over all things friendship!
- My Substack newsletter about friendship & more
- Dear Nina website with show notes and a guide to pitching yourself as a guest
- Instagram , TikTok, Twitter, Youtube, Threads
- JOIN the Dear Nina Facebook group
- Ask an anonymous question
Our Sponsors:
* Check out Armoire and use my code DEARNINA for a great deal: https://www.armoire.style
Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
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Manage episode 447525021 series 2951280
"Social" prescriptions from your doctor? Yes! What if for the sake of our mental and physical health doctors wrote prescriptions for cycling groups, fishing clubs, or volunteer positions on a farm? Those are real scenarios in Julia Hotz's THE CONNECTION CURE: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service and Belonging, "the first book exploring the science, stories, and spread of social prescribing."
In today's episode, a perfect follow-up to last week's episode on the importance of hobbies for the empty nest and retirement, Julia and I discussed these activity-based and creative "medical" solutions to the post-30s friendship struggles that are so commonplace nowadays as people live far from previous friends and family, work remotely, and spend more time than ever on screens.
WHAT IS SOCIAL PRESCRIBING? In Julia's words, "Social, in the public health context, is about everything in a person's environment from where they live, to how they cope with stress, to what their job is like, and whether it fulfills them. All of these things boil down to what are called your social determinants of health. We have data showing that up to 80% of our health is determined by these social factors. What social prescribing then refers to is any non-medical community-based activity or resource that is prescribed to improve your health and well-being."
MY FAVORITE QUOTE IN THE BOOK: “This book is guided by real patients' lived experiences, but everyone's lived experience is different. In fact, that's what social prescribing is all about. Instead of what's the matter with you, a fixed list of symptoms, it focuses on what matters to you."
MEET JULIA HOTZ
Julia Hotz is a solutions journalist and author of THE CONNECTION CURE: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service and Belonging (Simon & Schuster). The book has been featured in NBC, BBC, Scientific American, NPR, GOOP, The Good Life Project and more. Find Julia on socialprescribing.co and Instagram.
LINKS MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE
- Study showing we lose half of our friends every seven years.
- Skip the Small Talk events are grounded in psychology research that help strangers get to know each other and help with practicing vulnerability in conversation.
- Dear Nina: The (Facebook) Group where we have been compiling a great list of hobbies have started and groups people have joined.
Let's connect over all things friendship!
- My Substack newsletter about friendship & more
- Dear Nina website with show notes and a guide to pitching yourself as a guest
- Instagram , TikTok, Twitter, Youtube, Threads
- JOIN the Dear Nina Facebook group
- Ask an anonymous question
Our Sponsors:
* Check out Armoire and use my code DEARNINA for a great deal: https://www.armoire.style
Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
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