In a world where loneliness has become an epidemic and healthcare often feels impersonal, Dr. Elizabeth "Liz" Markle offers a revolutionary approach: prescribing community as medicine.

Dr. Elizabeth Markle, a licensed psychologist and co-founder of Open Source Wellness, challenges traditional healthcare approaches by introducing a revolutionary "Community As Medicine" model. She explores how social connection, movement, nutrition, and stress reduction can heal more than pharmaceuticals. Through Open Source Wellness, Liz has developed innovative group programs that prescribe community support, demonstrating significant improvements in participants' physical and mental health.  Join us as she shares with us how community can be the most powerful medicine.

In this episode, we cover:

• Benefits of Community-based peer support for Health
• The Concept of a Behavioral Pharmacy
• Shortcomings of the Healthcare System
• Training and Implementation of Community as Medicine
• Partnership with low-income Health clinics, YMCAs, and other Organizations to deliver the Community as Medicine Model
• Choice of Individual Coaching 
• Formation of Groups and Group Accountability 
• Helping people who are suffering from loneliness
• Creation of Open Source Wellness and collecting outcomes data
• Need for Structural changes to support Social Connection and Well-being in Modern Society
• Challenges and Future Directions
• Forming Lifelong Connections and Support Networks that Created Sustainable Structures
• How to join as a coach

Helpful links:

• Elizabeth Markle, Ph.D. Co-Founder, Executive Director of Open Souce Wellness a nonprofit devoted to equitable health and wellbeing. To donate, visit this LINK
• Full Service Health Coaching
• Food as Medicine Program Support
• Are you interested in being a Health Coach? Apply here
• Connect with Liz @dr.eliz.markle on Instagram and on LinkedIN
• David Whyte’s Poem - Everything is waiting for you
• Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American by David Putnam
• The Holomovement
• Living Tantra - A 6-week immersive journey into sacred embodiment, pleasure, presence, and energetic intimacy (virtual Course)

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