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The holidays are filled with a multitude of wonderful memories, many of them centered around family, friends and food. Before you deck the halls and gather around the kitchen table, consider the following tips on keeping your body, mind and spirit healthy.

How to make a smooth seasonal transition

There’s so much to do during the summer months — and so many opportunities for illness or injury. Typical summertime activities like swimming and biking come with unique risks, and summertime heat itself can be dangerous.

The handmade sign said, “Colton, I beat cancer” with a photo of St. Louis Blues player Colton Parayko and Ashlynn Wilson, a teenager who recently became cancer free, ice skating together at Enterprise Center.

Springtime is the perfect time to get your health needs in order, including disposing of unused or expired medications, making important decisions about your future health care, registering to give the gift of life as an organ donor, learning more about accessing your health information through MyChart, and scheduling a COVID-19 vaccine or booster shot (if you haven’t already) or COVID-19 test.

In a world where there’s not enough time in the day to be sick, we find ourselves wanting flexibility and more options for care when illness or injury strikes.

You wake up with a sore throat or sniffles.

At a small-town rehabilitation facility like Missouri Baptist Therapy and Wellness in Sullivan, Missouri, therapists are used to being on a first-name basis with their patients.