How to Combine Running and Meditation to Finish Ultramarathons in Your 50's!
Happy Brain6 Dec 2022

How to Combine Running and Meditation to Finish Ultramarathons in Your 50's!

How can starting with a 60 second jog lead to running an ultra marathon and beat depression? Join us as we chat how Nita has made her brain happier by combining running and meditation. She has run marathons and ultramarathons in her 40's and 50's.

Nita is a well published author. She's published three books, including Depression is a Moving Target and her latest book we talk about is Make Every Move a Meditation. You will learnhow she found a way to combine two pillars of mental health to improve her overall mental health.

About our Guest
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. Her next book, Make Every Move a Meditation, was a finalist in the International Book Awards. 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 also publishes the writing resource newsletter, Write Now Columbus. Nita lives in central Ohio with her husband, Ed, and their yellow Labrador retriever, Scarlet.

Resources

◼️ Free Ebook- Three Tools for a Happier, Healthier Mind - https://nitasweeney.com/three-tools/

◼️ Happy Brain Mental Wellness Tips and Resources

Connect with Our Guest
◼️Website: https://nitasweeney.com

◼️LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitasweeney/

◼️Instagram: https://instagram.com/nitasweeney

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