Coping with COVID: 4 Reasons To Take A Family Hike

  • October 22, 2020
  • Amee Sandhu, Lawyer and Founder, LexIntegra

This article was originally published in www.seewhatshecando.com. For details, please reach out to the author, or visit 'See What She Can Do.' Amee Sandhu is a business, ethics and compliance lawyer. After many years as in-house counsel to large international corporations, she launched her own firm, LexIntegra. Learn more about Amee and LexIntegra at lexintegra.ca.

I was telling Tina Finelli, a fellow entrepreneur, how hiking with my kids has been a wonderful coping strategy lately.

Covid-19 has been a challenging time with work, building a business, and my three kids (10 and under) at home for six months. Even when not living through a pandemic, I find it difficult to make time to prioritize my health and wellness.   

As a lawyer, I am part of a profession that is only starting to talk about mental health in 2020, never mind address it! I wrote this blog on World Mental Health Day 2020 to emphasize that we all need to prioritize our physical and mental wellness.