The holidays can be magical—or overwhelming. Whether they feel like "holidays" or "hellidays" for you, this week guest contributor Jennifer Thomas explore five ways to navigate the season with grace and balance.
Real Talk: Health, Wellness, and Alcohol Intersectionality at The Sip & Sabor Festival
This week, Beck recaps the Sip & Sabor Festival and the conversation around mindful hospitality and creating welcoming spaces.
What’s Inside Your Mental Health First Aid Kit?
Feeling a little frayed around the edges? This week. Cathy shares her secret weapon: a mental health First Aid Kit. This personalized toolkit, filled with mindfulness, community, and creative outlets, helps her navigate life’s challenges. We want to know what’s in your kit?
Welcome to the Moderation Party
Moderation and mindful drinking has been a hot topic of late, but at ABG we have been tackling this topic for 6+ years, and are not going quiet any time soon.
Navigating the Holiday Hustle: Beck and Cathy’s Tips for Vitality
As the holiday rush kicks in, it’s easy to get swept away in the buzz. Beck and Cathy share their go-to wellness tips to stay balanced, from nighttime rituals to energizing supplements.
When the Rug (and the Floorboards, and the Earth Itself) are Pulled Out from Under You
Fresh from a workshop with writer, Elizabeth Gilbert, Cathy shares her profound insights on creativity and purpose. In times of upheaval, the importance of breath, recalibration and making the right steps.
Feeling the Strain? How To Lean on Community to Weather Tough Times
In a world where everyone seems to be "killing it," it's okay to admit that things are tough. This week we tap back into community, and share the Top 10 list of ABG community profiles that you all loved, for inspiration.
Shifting from Perfection to Presence: Using Wisdom To Guide A Meditation Session
This week, beck shares how a quiet a-ha moment in got her to understand the subtle nuance between wisdom and knowledge.
10 Days of Silence. 5 Unexpected Takeaways for You
Fresh from a ten-day Vipassana meditation retreat, Cathy shares five unexpected lessons about mindfulness, minimalism, and maintaining serenity, offering practical tips to bring these insights into daily life.
More Than Just Wine: Six Ways to Rediscover Who We Are Beyond the Industry
Balancing a career in wine with personal identity is crucial. This week, Rachel shares six ways to find joy and build a life outside the industry.
How to Lift Wine Cases Without Hurting Yourself: Expert Tips from a Fitness Pro
Fitness pro Ricardo Sales shares expert tips on safely lifting wine cases. Discover how proper posture, realistic lifting limits, using your strongest muscles, and mindful movement can prevent injuries.
A Technique for Exercising Your Psychological Strength
Working on your “strength training” of a different kind, this week, Cathy shares her secret to separating fact from fiction and fostering resilience through the “reality check” body scan.
How Small Choices Make A Big Impact On Workers at the Heart of Terroir
With more than 90 tea producers certified as B-Corporations worldwide, Rachel DelRocco Terrazas considers what wine producers can learn from another traditional beverage category.
Pebbling: The Gesture of Connection Inspired by Penguin Romance
What do antarctic penguin mating habits and connection have in common? This week, Beck finds out the story behind the latest social trend of “pebbling'“
Change: Getting Out of Our Own Way
Change is a constant. So instead of fearing it, we observed, leaned in and became more curious? That’s Cathy’s offer to you this week. Curiosity and adventure, that’s when real change happens.
Cue Verjus: The "Other Green Juice" We Should be Drinking More Of This Summer
Just in time for Summer, Rachel DelRocco considers the “other” green juice we should have in our drinks repertoire!
Coherent Breathing: Your Stress-Busting Solution Is Two Bells Away
Beck shares a simple and effective breath work cue to help focus your mind and reduce stress - led by a simple audio cue.
In Favor of the New: Beginner’s Mind, Again
Cathy gets curious in meditation from the perspective of a newbie meditator to discover new ways of doing things, unearthing some gorgeous gifts along the way.
From Cup to Glass: Exploring the Intersection of Tea and Wine Culture
It was at a cupping for tea and coffee that Rachel had her "aha" moment, and it was that tea education that made her transition to a sommelier role in Austin, Texas, a little easier.
Is the best non-alcoholic wine we tasted even... wine?
Over recent months we have tasted a few alcohol free wines, to find some good DRINKS. Here are the 10 best we found.