Hike yourself happy

Twenty twenty. The year of new beginnings, or so it seemed. By now many of us are hoping that we wake up and 2020 was a mere dream, with no pandemic in sight. Unfortunately, it was real, very real. Life as we have been accustomed to appeared to vanish overnight, replaced by a strange new world. While working from home was once a mere dream of many, 2020 saw this dream become an everyday reality. For some of us this new reality was fraught with the added stress of managing working from home and home schooling, while others were lonely; gone was the everyday office interaction, the solitude of their four walls deafening.

Businesses all around the world have closed, some never to reopen. The simplicity of going to the doctor, work meetings in person and going out to dinner have now been replaced by Zoom meetings and social distancing. While people struggle to come to terms with our new COVID-19 world, anxiety and depression are on the rise tenfold. To overcome the mental health crisis COVID-19 has created, which has resulted