{"id":2616,"date":"2024-04-03T20:01:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2024-04-03T20:02:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T00:02:48","slug":"nita-sweeney-persistence-pays-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=2616","title":{"rendered":"Nita Sweeney: Persistence Pays Off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/NitaSweeneyApril3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/NitaSweeneyApril3-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/NitaSweeneyApril3-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/NitaSweeneyApril3-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/NitaSweeneyApril3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/NitaSweeneyApril3-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/NitaSweeneyApril3.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Columbus-based wellness author Nita Sweeney was a Faulkner Society Award finalist and an Ohio Arts Council Governor&#8217;s Award nominee for her 2019 memoir, <em>Depression Hates a Moving Target<\/em>. The book was a number one Amazon new release in the mood disorders, bipolar disorder, and running and jogging categories. She has released three other books since then: a 2020 co-authored writing journal called <em>You Should Be Writing: A Journal of Inspiration and Instruction To Keep Your Pen Moving<\/em>; 2022&#8217;s <em>Make Every Move a Meditation: Mindful Movement for Mental Health, Well-Being, and Insight<\/em>. Her most recent publication is <em>A Daily Dose of Now: 365 Mindful Meditation Practices for Living in the Moment<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen in as Nita describes her writing journey, challenges, and successes, and the persistence that helped land her first book deal and then meet her at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohioana.org\/programs\/ohioana-book-festival\/\" title=\"\">2024 Ohioana Book Festival!<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Craft_2024-3-26_Nita-Sweeney.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbus-based wellness author Nita Sweeney was a Faulkner Society Award finalist and an Ohio Arts Council Governor&#8217;s Award nominee for her 2019 memoir, Depression Hates a Moving Target. The book was a number one Amazon new release in the mood &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=2616\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-craft-productions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2623,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions\/2623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}