“If I don’t love myself, I can’t love anyone else”, with author Nita Sweeney

If I don’t love myself, I can’t love anyone else.I project the negative and often brutal messages I’m feeding to myself onto others and no matter how much I want to show love, I am incapable.

As a part of my series about “Connecting with Yourself to Live with Better Relationships” I had the pleasure to interview Nita Sweeney. Nita is the author of the #1 Amazon New Release Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running with My Dog Brought Me Back from the Brink. She blogs at BumGlue on topics of writing, mental health, running, dogs, and mindfulness. She also teaches creative writing and publishes the monthly email Write Now Newsletter. Nita lives in central Ohio with her husband and biggest fan, Ed, and their #ninetyninepercentgooddog, Scarlet.

Thank you so much for joining us! I’d love to begin by asking you to give us the backstory as to what brought you to this specific career path.

I’ve always wanted to write, but also wanted to be “practical” so I studied journalism then went to law school. After a decade of legal practice (and a major depressive episode), I turned in my shingle for a fast writing pen. People still ask legal…