Mental Health Pop Up, Onsite Wellness House, and Functional Mushrooms

get the hoodies ready for those runs, with intermittent showers all week. 🌧️ 

Community Run: 6RUN5 x The Exchange (Tue., Mar. 5, at 6pm)

📍 East Nash

6RUN5 hosts their weekly run at The Exchange Running Collective in East.

2 and 4 mile route options, run begins at 6:15pm. read more here 👟 

Happy Hour w/ Functional Mushrooms (Fri., Mar. 8, 4 - 7pm)

📍 Wedgewood-Houston

NA bottle shop, Killjoy, hosts a free event with tasty beverages infused with functional mushrooms.

Depending on the type, functional mushrooms can boost immune systems, improve cognitive function, and reduce stress.

Side note: I’ve added this creamer to my morning coffee for years (no affiliation).

Reserve spot here and read more on functional shrooms here. 🍄 

Mental Health Pop Up (Sat. - Sun., Mar. 9-10)

📍 East Nash

Diana Partington is a licensed professional counselor based in Nash. She has been teaching DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) for over a decade.

To celebrate her new book, DBT for Life, she’s partnered with Healing in the Margins for a two-day mental health pop up at the Main Street Gallery.

She will be leading workshops using exercises and ideas from the book and will conclude the weekend with a talk on “DBT and the Dharma” with a special guest.

Learn more about Diana, the book, and the pop up schedule here. 🧠 

Onsite Opens Wellness House

Onsite provides personal transformation retreats at their beautiful land just an hour outside of the city. And are now opening the Onsite Wellness Center in Nashville.

It will offer in-depth outpatient programs designed to help people find sustained wholeness.

“Onsite Wellness House brings the best of Onsite and Milestones to those in the Nashville area who want to begin or continue their “work” without having to put their lives on hold.”

What to expect? group, individual, and family therapy sessions offered.

I spent a few days with the Onsite staff in 2023. They are truly one of a kind and provide a safe and accessible space for one’s healing journey.

Find out more information here.

Vandy Student Launches Chicks with Kicks

Caroline Holland, a student at Vanderbilt, founded Chicks with Kicks, a women's running group, in the wake of a nursing student's murder in Georgia during her morning run.

The group aims to provide a supportive and safe environment for women to run together. She already has 70+ in her group! (source: WKRN)

Go Caroline! 🏃‍♀️👏 

Huberman Lab: Dr. Andrew Huberman interviews Dr. D’Esposito of Berkeley on how to optimize cognitive function and brain health.

Per usual, this ep is about 2hr 30min long, but Huberman’s IG post here distills the protocols succinctly.

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