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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?
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.
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.
Taking a Break: Why I'm Pressing Pause on ABG to Focus on Self-Care and Renewal
All good things need to take a moment to stop and catch their breath. And this week, Beck explains why.
Volunteering to Be Vulnerable in the Wine World
Cathy considers how the act of being vulnerable — especially in public — can offer opportunities for deeper and more lasting connection.
It’s September. Welcome to the Grind, and Also Its Antidotes
Yup, it's BUSY out there in the world! This week, Cathy offers ideas to find respite from the madness.
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.
In Favor of Nuance
This week, Cathy considers the importance of focus, perspective, and the nuance and subtlety of our behaviors in daily life.
Looking for Mental Health Resources? Keep this List Handy
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.
The Breath Refresh That Helps Clear Your Mind
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:
The REAL Reason We Take Mental Health Breaks
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.
The Antidote to Anxiety, and How to Use It in Our Everyday Lives
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.
5 Ideas for Balancing Deadlines with Self-Compassion
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:
Olympic-Level Self-Talk, and the One Word that Makes All the Difference
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?
Setting Boundaries and Other Herculean Feats
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.
10 Reasons to Dance. (Yes, Dance.)
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.
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!
Considering Loss and Grief in the ABG Community
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.
It's Month Thirteen, People. Not Every Moment Can Be a Moment of Valor
this week our Guest Contributor Ashley Trout considers life 13 months into COVID.