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Nita Sweeney is the award-winning wellness author of the running and mental health memoir, Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running with My Dog Brought Me Back from the Brink and co-creator of the writing journal, You Should Be Writing: A Journal of Inspiration & Instruction to Keep Your Pen Moving. A certified meditation leader, mental health advocate, ultramarathoner, and former assistant to writing practice originator Natalie Goldberg, Nita founded the groups Mind, Mood, and Movement to support well-being through meditation, exercise, and writing practice, and The Writer’s Mind, to share using writing practice to produce publishable work. Nita lives in central Ohio with her husband, Ed, and their yellow Labrador retriever, Scarlet. 

In today’s episode we talk all about mental health, and the connection between our physical health and our mental health.  Nita doesn’t hold back, she braves talking about all the good, the bad and the ugly surrounding mental health, this one is powerful!

Highlights from the show:

• Why Nita started running
• How running brought her back from the brink
• The connection between exercise and our mental health
• The importance of a support system 
• Nita’s top 3 mental health and wellness tools

Resources: 

Free ebook - Three Ways to Heal Your Mindhttps://nitasweeney.com/ebooks-2/ 

Depression Hates a Moving Targethttps://nitasweeney.com/about-the-book/ 

You Should Be Writinghttps://nitasweeney.com/you-should-be-writing/ 

All Things Nita!https://linktr.ee/nitasweeney 

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For some more free resources to help you on your journey, click HERE to download my Guide to Seed Cycling and HERE for my guide on Minerals for Chakra Balancing and Longevity (a personal favorite because mineral balancing is my jam!)