Whether you're hitting the beach, going for a hike, or simply enjoying a picnic in the park, having a positive attitude toward your body and your health and wellness can make all the difference.

Perhaps body doubling is a way we can weave a thicker social network and feel supported while accomplishing our health and wellness goals.

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.

I’m happy to report I’ve learned some things recently that I plan to continue. Why? Because an occasional less-than-ideal meal here and there is fine, but I feel crummy if I’m not regularly eating fruits, veggies, and quality grains and proteins. My energy wanes, my stomach feels weird, and I get crabby. 

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.

Mood-boosting foods can help support your overall wellness and might make winter a little easier to tolerate.

While it might not be possible to have “perfect” sleep all the time, sometimes it helps to think about our routines to see if we are maximizing them. What does your ideal sleep routine look like?

Author Jane McGonigal, in her book “SuperBetter: The Power of Living Gamefully,” writes that gamification of real-world goals can help us tap into strengths like creativity, focused attention, determination and optimism.

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.

There are certain things we can’t change, or maybe we don’t see how we can right now. But maybe there’s ways we can sneak a little sensory awareness into our day — and reap some amazing wellness benefits as a result.