Salugenology (WHY HUMANS REQUIRE HOBBIES) Part 2 with Julia Hotz

Oh hey, it's still the guy at the falafel truck who gives you extra hummus, Allie Ward, and here is part two of one of my favorite episodes we've ever done. Here we are. This is science-based advice on how to balance your work with your real life, how to get your little sparkle back, even when the world is raining turds. Its hobbies pastimes, community, and according to this guest, the author of the book, The Connection Cure, it's the prescriptive power of movement, nature, art, service, and belonging.

And I couldn't put that whole thing in the subtitle. And if I just wrote social prescribing, you're like, I don't know what that is. So that's why it's why humans need hobbies. That's very much in a nutshell. Anyway.

To hear all the foundations, including the etymology and the history of this field, so many examples and papers and why this guest doesn't like the title of her own book, you just hop your beautiful butt back to part one. Okay, start there. Come meet us back here, part two. So let's get to part two. But first, thank you, patrons, for supporting the show for as little as $1 a month and submitting your questions.

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