What makes up the perfect morning routine? I’m the kinda person who has to ease into the world each day, and my morning routine has become super important to that process.

Friends don’t let friends get sunburns. Learn from my mistakes, and protect that beautiful skin, lovelies!

This is the tricky stage of recovery from illness: Those early jolts of energy tempting you to charge back into life, the return of the obligations you had to ignore because you felt too crummy to lift your head off the pillow. It’s hard not to get swept back up in the grind again. But I know if I do, I’ll overdo it and end up fighting this virus longer than I need to.

Several of my coworkers invited me to alpaca yoga at Eagle Eye Farm — a lovely expanse of green grass, white picket fences, friendly staff and the cutest little farm animals. I had a smile on my face the whole time, whether I was releasing muscle tension through down dog or petting Pearl, one of many alpacas on the farm.

For me, planning a successful vacation means identifying what’s important to me and my husband, choosing our priorities, and making sure we have time along the way to actually process and enjoy what we are seeing and doing instead of rushing from one thing to the next.

Lately, I’ve been experimenting with this mindset: Asking my body what it needs today and then doing some type of exercise in line with that.