Maintaining good personal health has undoubtedly been on many people’s minds over the last year. COVID-19 has led to many reflections and realizations about how we keep ourselves physically healthy. But prolonged isolation and anxiety has also helped spark a discussion about how we keep ourselves mentally healthy as well. Physical health and mental health are two sides of the same coin. One can not exist without the other. Both good physical and mental health are needed for us to lead a happy and healthy lives.

I am an indoor person. Exercise – and the outdoors really – are not my favorite things. I would go out for a run every so often, just to keep a certain level of fitness. But I would much rather run around a city in a video game, than do so for real. That all got turned upside down last month. It all started when a friend sent this message into a group I was in: