More than 50 hours of music are compiled across five Spotify playlists to help you navigate life with a little toe-tapping, booty-shaking, system-clearing vibe.
All in Wellness
Lanterns of Leadership - A New ABG Story Series
This week we launch “lanterns of Leadership - a story series devoted to helping showcase the stories of the industry leaders leading the way in making workplaces healthier places to be.
This is Us, Being Vulnerable
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.
Wine and Wellness: How to Be Agents of Change
This week we hand the keyboard to guest contributor Carolyn Martin, of South African' producer, Creation Wines, to share their vision for wellness in the wine business.
Forgotten How to Business Travel? Hack the Pack with These Five Reminders
As Willie Nelson sang, “On the road again” this week, Beck offers up five tips to help you get back into work travel with a little more ease.
Working in the Wine Industry CAN Be Good for You. But There's a But.
Fresh from our session at @wine2wineverona, Beck recaps the session, “Can Working in the Wine Business be GOOD for You?”
ABG Goes to wine2wine: Please Weigh In with Your Input!
We are headed to wine2wine and love to hear this community’s thoughts on the question, “can working in the wine business be good for you?.”
What An Old Watch Has Taught Me About Meditation
A sidewalk sale wasn’t exactly the most obvious place to find a new meditation teacher, but it was an old watch that taught Beck new reminders about meditation.
Expert Tips to Bone Up on Your Bone Health
One in three women and one in five men over the age of 50 will be diagnosed with osteoporosis. An average, 54 million Americans have osteoporosis. This week guest contributor Melanie Young offers practical and insightful advice of helping managing bone health.
2 Big and Completely Unexpected Upsides to Meditation
The thing about meditation is that no matter how many times you do it, there's something else to uncover. So this week Cathy shares why this week's focus on meditation is worth returning to. If there's ever been a time to uncover the quieter, still parts of ourselves, it might be right now.
A Too-Good-to-Be-True Tool to Navigate the Chaos
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!
Wine Travel, Revisited: Getting Back in the Post-COVID Game
Long-haul work travel is starting up again, and this week, Cathy reports in from Spain on the strange and familiar parts of returning to the road. Read the full story at the website here:
6 Quirky Tips for a Better Night’s Sleep
Lately it seems a lack of sleep seems to be an issue for many in our community, with the ongoing anxiety and stress from longer work hours, demands on home life and the constant shifting needs. Here are six more unusual tools that I have found to help myself get to, and stay, asleep.
So I'm Officially a Mindfulness Teacher. Now What?
This past weekend, Cathy graduated (virtually) from the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certificate Program, a two-year program facilitated by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. It was all the things, especially inspiration about sharing mindfulness in the world as we know it today. What happens now?
Women in Wellness: A Focus on Entrepreneurship
Women are more impacted by the pandemic, yet more women are likely to start a business. This week Cathy tackles the reasons why staring something new in uncertain times.
Space As a Way To Kindness
These last few weeks beck has been thinking a great deal about the the idea of seeking, creating and finding room in our daily lives to hold sacred space for ourselves and each other. To step back in these triggered times and allow ourselves and others to navigate the fragile emotional state we find ourselves in. Safely.
How to Start a Home Yoga Practice (When All We’re Doing is Staying Home)
This week, as we’ve checked in with friends and colleagues around the country, we’ve noticed how often they mention a home yoga practice as a way to cope. Or at least as a way to manage the tension of being cooped up indoors.
Shifting Expectations: A Birthday Wish
With Cathy’s birthday this year, she had started to get really curious about what to expect, biologically and emotionally, as she got older but there was much more to discover…
Survey says! Results from the ABG Community Check-In
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!
WE Need YOU for A Balanced Glass Community Check-In
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.