All good things need to take a moment to stop and catch their breath. And this week, Beck explains why.
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All good things need to take a moment to stop and catch their breath. And this week, Beck explains why.
Cathy considers how the act of being vulnerable — especially in public — can offer opportunities for deeper and more lasting connection.
Yup, it's BUSY out there in the world! This week, Cathy offers ideas to find respite from the madness.
Should we be vulnerable, or not? This week, Cathy offers the opportunity to consider the benefits of vulnerability and showing up with "palms up". Check it out.
This week, Cathy considers the importance of focus, perspective, and the nuance and subtlety of our behaviors in daily life.
May is Mental health Awareness month, and this week, Beck shares a refresher on some of the new resources and support tools we look to for support.
Feeling a little more foggy mirror than clear windshield? This week, the ABG community teachers offer up some options on breath techniques that may help clear things up:
This week, Cathy considers how taking a mental health break is just as much about everyone else as it is about ourselves - in a good way. Check it out.
For Cathy, this past week was a first for Beck and I, twice over. The “first first” was co-leading a wine tasting in North Carolina, and the “second first” was co-presenting a mini-workshop to teenagers and parents on how to manage anxiety. Know what they had in common? Taking a pause.
Deadlines are inescapable. Which, in the interest of our personal mental health, also means that self-compassion is not optional. This week, Cathy Huyghe offers up ways to go a little easier on ourselves if we miss a "D" date:
The thing about self-talk for Olympians, is that It’s off-camera. It’s subconscious. It isn’t visible, yet there is no action without it. Self-talk has also been with those Olympic athletes their whole lives as well. So what’s the difference between their self-talk and ours?
The decision of Simone Biles this week at the Tokyo Olympics to withdraw from the US Olympics gymnastics team is, to me, one of the most inspiring feats in athletic history. While her decision may seem incomprehensible to some, may Biles’ decision inspire anyone to say, in their own way, stop.
Dancing? It’s a topic that sounds like it’s coming out of left field. But this week Cathy shares ten reasons why dancing has skyrocketed up her list of favorite activities these past few months.
This week, Cathy explores a technique for calm that has been described as “an apparently pointless process” and “pivotal to creative recovery,” - check it out!
Loss, and grief aren’t typically topics of casual, everyday conversation, yet those topics have arisen frequently enough these past few weeks that it’s worth some attention and exploration.
this week our Guest Contributor Ashley Trout considers life 13 months into COVID.
The number 108, you may already know, is significant symbolically in many traditions. In yoga, for example, 108 sun salutations are often practiced to honor change. There are 108 traditional Indian dance forms, and there are believed to be 108 different types of meditation…
This week we will share Part 1 of the results received from our recent ABG Community check-in. All responses were completely anonymous which, judging by your additional comments, helped in the honesty department. check it out!
The relentless impact that COVID is having on our daily lives is palpable, so we really do want to know how you are faring. In the absence of 1,000 separate telephone calls, we are hoping to find out a little more about how people are faring. To that end, we have created a simple survey to receive your input.
Under times of duress, we forget who to trust the most. Right now, when it seems like “out there” has never been such a mess, we forget about the resource that’s “in here.” Let me put it this way. Who to trust, is YOU.