Credit: Rob Donnelly | Rev. Diane Sullivan

We’re three weeks into 2019, and you’ve already punted on most of your resolutions to get healthier. Don’t despair! Wellness is a long game, not a quick fix. So dry your eyes — though not so much as to incur dry eye syndrome — and get back on that bike. Specifically, the bikes for oxygen interval training at Future Fit, one of many space-age workout devices at Burlington’s new high-tech fitness center. Winter got you down? Try some SAD-curbing herbs from Railyard Apothecary. In White River Junction, scientists at the PTSD Brain Bank are working to better understand posttraumatic stress disorder. Meanwhile, we try to better understand Vermont’s opioid crisis with a new yearlong investigative series called “Hooked.” Finally, self-care is important, so get hygge with it in the wood-fired saunas and hot tubs at WilloBurke Boutique Inn + Nordic Spa.

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This article appears in Jan 16-22, 2019.

Pamela Polston is a contributing arts and culture writer and editor. She cofounded Seven Days in 1995 with Paula Routly and served as arts editor, associate publisher and writer. Her distinctive arts journalism earned numerous awards from the Vermont Press Association, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia and the New England Newspaper & Press Association. Pamela was inducted into the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame in 2015. In 2021, the Vermont Arts Council presented her with the Walter Cerf...