Wellness is Not a Trend: 5 Tips to Get on Track in 2025

Let’s be honest—every January, gyms are packed with New Year’s resolutions in full swing. But by Valentine’s Day, that energy tends to fizzle out. Sound familiar?

If health and wellness didn’t make your priority list this past year, don’t worry. These five simple and actionable tips will help you build healthy habits that stick—so you can make 2025 your year of lasting wellness.

1. Habit-Stacking: Build Wellness into Your Day

One of the biggest pitfalls in developing a consistent health and wellness routine is time management. But here’s the secret: if something’s a priority, you make the time. Enter habit-stacking, a proven method to make new habits easier to adopt.

Here’s how it works: First, make a list of your priorities ensuring your health goals are in the top three. Once you’ve developed your priorities, you’ve got to make the goal easy to achieve. Habit stacking is a great way to achieve your goals. With habit-stacking you take a habit, or task you must do daily, and attach a task to it.

For example, if you desire to be more active and you must go to work every day, try adjusting your commute so that you pass beautiful parks or trails on your way home and are enticed to enjoy nature before retiring for the evening.

2. Move It to Lose It—Make Fitness Scenic

Exercise doesn’t have to mean hours in a crowded gym. Instead, head outside! Tom Triplett Park is a great location for being active. Boasting two tennis courts,a playground, various walking trails and disc, golf course and two fishing piers, Tom Triplett Park makes the goal of getting physically fit both attainable and scenic.

3. Stretch Your Body – and Your Budget

If you’re craving calm and balance, a budget friendly yoga practice can be found at Awakening Yoga Studio. Just a short drive down Highway 17, and you’re on your way to Namaste! New students can purchase a $50 pass for 30-Days of Yoga. Topping out at $1.67/day, yoga can help you achieve your wellness goals while being easy on the wallet.

4. You Are What You Eat

If yoga isn’t your jam, another way to improve your health goals is incorporating more whole-foods and plant-based options into your diet. Try visiting the Mega Pop-Up and Farmer’s Market at Tom Triplett Park. The market is full of local vendors and farmer’s booths with locally sourced produce and other free workshops and fitness classes the second Sunday of each month excluding July and August. You can elevate flavors and heal your body all while helping the community by supporting local vendors.

5. A Little Help from Your Friends

Another fulfilling way to accomplish your health and wellness goals is joining others who can keep you accountable. Find friends to work out with or who will check in on your progress. You will also feel great about helping them stay true to their goals as well. Check in by working out together, texting or joining an online community of like-minded locals.

Want more? Consider helping in the community. This will improve your sense of well-being and even improve mental health.

Kiwanis Club of Pooler is always looking for committed volunteers. Their program focuses on impacting child hunger, literacy and mentorship. Working with volunteer organizations builds communication skills and deepens connection with the community, further increasing the likelihood that you’ll stick with it! Assisting youth within this organization develops communication skills and deepens connection with the community, further increasing the likelihood that you’ll stick with it!

Whether it’s mentoring kids, volunteering at events, or just showing up for the group walk at the park, contributing to your community will enhance your sense of purpose while keeping you on track.

Make 2025 the Year You Thrive

Wellness isn’t a trend—it’s a lifestyle. From scenic walks to calming yoga, farmers’ markets, and community connection, Bryan County has everything you need to build healthy habits that last.

So, this year, let’s skip the fad diets and fleeting gym memberships. Start small, be consistent, and embrace wellness in a way that fits into your life. Your future self will thank you!