Summer Health Strategies

In the summer, we try to help people who may have sleep difficulties because of the longer days deal with that with some coping strategies and talking about it is one of those and just saying it like I just by time the sun goes down, you know, at nine, personally, I was in Iceland once and the sun never went down. And I did not use the shade. I was excited to kind of like, you know, go to sleep at 130 and then just take a nap and get up and hit the ground running. But that's not sustainable and it's not a good idea at all. So we have to give people tools to close the shades, to be cognizant of how to wind down and to think about those things. And some people might have more stress in the summer. They're trying to balance working with having fun. Or maybe they're worried about, you know, how they're looking and, you know, can they sustain their healthy diet or, you know, is it a time to quit smoking? Is it a time to get more exercise? So all those things we need to support with people talking about it. So we know what they need the support in. I think in general, in summer, some of our programs actually slowed down. And so last summer, what we did is we decided to speed them up. So we made something called a Lunch and Learn. We targeted an older age group, and each week we had a life or child professional, whether they were from Tai Chi or whether they were from nutrition, talk about a challenge. And then we followed that with a physical indoor activity. Because in that age range, some people don't want to be out in the heat. might sit around the pool but they're not in the pool moving and so this was wildly successful.