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Looking for a Better Way To Drink and Manage Your Health? Read This Book.
Looking to better manage how you drink? This week, Beck shares her thoughts on the critical reference read from Professor David Nutt, “Drink? The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health.” It’s a must-read for anyone looking to dive deeper into the topic of alcohol and wellbeing.
ABG, The 2021 Edition: A Retrospective
In the final post for 2021, Cathy and Beck look back on 2021 with some thoughts on clarity, presence and finding what's important.
Survey Says! ABG Community Responses for ABG: A Preview
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.
108 Ways to Be Grateful
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…
Finding a Path to Self-Healing Through Ayurveda: An ABG Team Member's Story
This week's guest contributor and ABG team member, Alicia Laury, shares her journey into Ayurveda and practical tips on incorporating self-healing into your daily life. In a follow up post, she will also offer tenets from Ayurveda's ancient health system.
Lockdown Drinking and COVID Kilos: A French Perspective
Guest Contributor and Bordeaux resident, Wendy Narby shared her top five tips for managing mindful drinking to help avoid the potential of unwanted “COVID-kilos”.
Fear of the Unknown: Staying Mindful in a Time of Uncertainty
What do we do when fear arises in our hearts? With a big hat tip to meditation teacher Tara Brach, this week Beck explores the topic for wine pros in these most trying of times.
When Food is Too Much: 4 Tips for Navigating the Menu When You’ve Already Had Enough
Food writer and guest contributor Sara Kay shares simple tips on how to navigating smart menu options when you just can’t face another plate of abundance.
Headwinds Ahead: Wine in the Age of Wellness and Moderation
Wine has taken a bit of a beating lately. Between new year’s resolutions, media attention to Dry (or damp) January, the uncertainty of impending tariffs, or consumers indicating they plan to drink less alcohol, the latest industry reports do not paint the brightest of pictures for wine.
3 Bite-Size Ways to Beat the Overwhelm of Long-Haul Travel
Twenty three hours. That was my door-to-door travel time this past week for a work trip, from my home in Atlanta to my final destination city of Yinchuan, China. How do you maintain balance during an experience like that? I think there’s a beginning, a middle and an end to it. Here’s how it looked for me.
Mental Health Awareness: Shifting from Stigma To Support
Guest contributor Deborah Parker Wong shares a thoughtful question-and-answer interview with Brandon Staglin who talks candidly about his work and life experiences living in recovery from schizophrenia.
Curious About A Yoga Retreat But Not Sure Where to Start?
If you’ve ever been curious to know the basics of how to start to find yourself a good yoga retreat, Beck has a few tips for you…
A Milestone for ABG, and Three Pivotal Moments Along the Way
We reached a milestone this week, when Beck and A Balanced Glass received the Diaz Communications Innovator of the Year Award for 2019. . In honor of the occasion, I’d like to pause and reflect on what I think have been three pivotal moments so far in the evolution of ABG.
8 Health Lessons I Learned from a Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner
Over the course of his career, bay area TCM practitioner Dr Benjamin Yang has developed his own eight guiding principles which he believes will promote a long and happy quality of life, and it is a pleasure to share them here:
How to Wine, Dine and Stay Fit: Special Guest Post by Tim Liu
We hand over the keyboard to Tim Liu - fitness and nutrition coach to share his insights and experience on how to manage a life of wining, dining, and life on the road, Enjoy!
Lessons from Liège – Takeaways from the Born Digital Wine Awards Summit
At the recent Born Digital Wine Awards Summit in Liège Belgium, numerous topics were discussed, but the group chose to prioritize four topics for further industry consideration: packaging, wine tourism and education, wine media, and health and wellness.
5 Tips for Managing the Rollercoaster of Weight Gain
As I come off an intense month of brand launches, media events, and distributor trainings traversing the US, I realized that I had picked up a sneaky and unwelcome hitchhiker on my recent work travels.
6 Tips to Managing Sickness while Traveling Or, How to Not Be Sneezy Dwarf!
Traveling for work is stressful enough, with its time away from family and friends, constant wining and dining, time zones, hotel rooms and another multi-course dinner. But there’s nothing WORSE than getting sick on top of all of that.
When It Actually IS About You: How to Prioritize Self-Care
Self care is a thing that, as we can all attest, way too often gets pushed far down the to-do list, in lieu of work things and family things and just about everything but self-things.