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The Momentum of Gratitude
As we head into the Thanksgiving holiday Cathy challenges us to make gratitude a regular practice through out the year.
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.
Welcome To The Present Tense
Returning from a multi-day silent meditation retreat, Cathy offers some words of wisdom on the value of presence in every day life.
How to Leave your Job with Your Heart Intact
Considering a fresh start? This week Beck offers up some small ways to make the leap a little easier…
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.
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?
How to Put Mindful Drinking on Your 2021 List
It’s time for the new year and for many wine lovers, this can include reducing alcohol as a healthy way to reset for the year ahead. Not much of a Dry January believer myself, January is when I reevaluate my relationship with wine and drinking, and how it plays into my career and personal time.
Learning To Rest. Not To Quit.
Learning to stop has never been my strong point. this week, i find a few simple ways to make the impossible seem possible.
Five Bright Stars For These Dark Times
This week my mental health got hit by a truck. Like “holy s**t, I’m not sure where to start to get outta this one,” kinda hit… But through the angst and anxiety, there have been five bright stars I have looked to help keep me on track, and I hope they can help you, no matter where in the world this finds you.
The Negroni – My First Italian Lover
Do you remember your first negroni? I do. The heady aromas of orange, mandarin, rose and juniper filled my senses, and the unctuous liquid hit my lips, instantly warming my insides and flooding memories of my first sip of “real liquor”. But better.
Your Very Own Superpower, and How to Get It
Getting thrown off-balance. It happens, right? On a regular basis, I would think, for all of us. For some reason, however, these past few weeks have seen my scales of balance tip REALLY FAR in one direction and then another. Really high highs, that is, and really low lows.
How to Find the Time (and the Space)
Finding time is one thing, when it's possible -- easily so -- to spend every waking hour on work projects, and every other waking hour (ahem) on family or social commitments.
Can we also talk about finding space?
What the Dalai Lama Doesn’t Understand
Imagine if you got to witness the Dalai Lama’s first visit to the United States. Here’s a little of what you would have seen, if you could transport yourself back a few decades…
You Don’t Know Unless You Try: Surprising Developments for ABG
A Balanced Glass was invited as guests on an upcoming podcast hosted by Sonoma-based Garden Society, which produces chef-inspired confections with low-dose cannabis as an ingredient. What we discovered was beyond what we imagined.
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.
What Are You Holding On To? Four Breath Techniques to Help Let It Go
Stressful situations can all trigger blood pressure to rise, muscles to tighten, and likely cause you to hold your breath as your sympathetic nervous system kicks in, and your body prepares for “fight or flight”. So stop holding your breath and rty thee techniques.
Words of Wisdom from Women in Wine: Encouragement, and a Reality Check
R.H. Drexel, wine writer extraordinaire and a panelist that day, has just released the Woman's Issue of Loam Baby: A Wine Culture Journal, which is chock-full of profiles and straight-talk and narratives and straight-talk and features and did I mention straight-talk?
Surviving the Festive Season When It’s “Your Job” To Drink
Moderation? Ha! When you are being paid to grow, produce, promote, sell and market a product that soaks the Holiday season, navigating a life with a little more balance and less booze can be nigh impossible.
The Very Best Benefit of Mindfulness is the One We Need Most Right Now
Of all the gifts of mindfulness, drishti is at the top of my personal list of favorite benefits.