All in Mental Health
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?
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.
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.
Cathy considers how the act of being vulnerable — especially in public — can offer opportunities for deeper and more lasting connection.
This week, Cathy considers the habits and rituals we create and revisit as the seasons change:
Yup, it's BUSY out there in the world! This week, Cathy offers ideas to find respite from the madness.
It can feel like humanity is tearing itself apart with division, anger, angst and anxiety. While it may feel like there is no end or easy way out of the malaise that we find ourselves in, Beck offers one idea to help ease things a little…
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.
When was the last time you felt GREAT? This week Cathy offers some ways to help get back in the body.
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.
This week, we preview the responses from our short and anonymous survey that will help us present our session at this year’s wine2wine Business Forum.
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:
In business, the concept of ‘retreat’ can carry a negative connotation – a failed deal, not fulfilling obligations, stepping back from the opportunity, and ultimately not winning. But in a mindful practice, where we observe both the human self and the spiritual self, to retreat gives us the opportunity to step back, check in with our emotional state, and rebalance to find the clarity to move forward.
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.
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!
This week, guest writer @amycurrens shares how she swapped her wine key for a campground pass over the Summer.
