Mental Health is Health with Nita Sweeney

<p class="p1">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. </p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1">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!</p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1">Highlights from the show:</p> <ul class="ul1"><li class="li1">Why Nita started running</li> <li class="li1">How running brought her back from the brink</li> <li class="li1">The connection between exercise and our mental health</li> <li class="li1">The importance of a support system </li> <li class="li1">Nita’s top 3 mental health and wellness tools</li> </ul> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1">Resources: </p> <p class="p1">Free ebook - Three Ways to Heal Your Mind <a href='https://nitasweeney.com/ebooks-2/'>https://nitasweeney.com/ebooks-2/</a> </p> <p class="p3">Depression Hates a Moving Target <a href='https://nitasweeney.com/about-the-book/'>https://nitasweeney.com/about-the-book/</a> </p> <p class="p3">You Should Be Writing <a href='https://nitasweeney.com/you-should-be-writing/'>https://nitasweeney.com/you-should-be-writing/</a> </p> <p class="p3">All Things Nita! <a href='https://linktr.ee/nitasweeney'>https://linktr.