The holidays can be magical—or overwhelming. Whether they feel like "holidays" or "hellidays" for you, this week guest contributor Jennifer Thomas explore five ways to navigate the season with grace and balance.
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Under Pressure: Wine Event Professionals Reveal Their Top Stressors and Coping Strategies
Following last week’s post, Beck checks in with event pros and how they manage the stressors of a high energy profession while keeping it all cool.
7 Things That Stress Wine Event Pros (And They Will Never Tell You)
People love wine events. And here are the seven things that stress out event organizers (but they will never tell you)
Happiness as an Act of Defiance
In another year of immense and intense change, burnout is no joke, and this week, Cathy offers ways to turn down the volume and tune in to a better way. Check it out.
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.
Resilience, Adaptation and Connection: An Antipodean Look at the 2020 Harvest
The annual grape harvest (“vintage” in local speak) is always an exhausting marathon of physical and mental endurance – which Covid-19 has magnified. To get a sense of what’s happening, we spoke to grape growers and winemakers across three regions of New Zealand and Australia.
Launching ABG on the Cushion: A Meditation for Busy (and Anxious) Wine Professionals
With all that is going on in the world, and our collective anxiety heightened, we thought it timely to launch ABG On The Cushion four-week meditation program led by Cathy. Curious? Click through to learn more.
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 You Want To Say NO To The HO-HO-HO
Holidays are not always the easiest of times, so here’s a few ways to help you navigate what can be a pressure cooker of weeks. Tinsel not included ;).
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.
Reduce Stress in 60 Seconds: Dial “N” for Nature
Decades of medical research, books, journals, and papers exist on the benefits of spending time in nature, the positive impacts on stress levels, and the our overall physical and mental wellbeing. <<click image to read more>>
The Importance of Showing Up
Our aim with the 30 Days of Practice is to share ways to help you navigate a career and industry that can be difficult at times. But there’s one thing we can’t teach you how to do, which is perhaps the most critical step in the process –- and that’s to show up in the first place.
Two Tools For Better Breathing and one is FREE!
As we draw to a close of our 30 Days of Practice, here’s two simple resources I have found instrumental in helping get deeper into my breath and manage stress, concentration and anxiety - and one is free!
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Are you REALLY Breathing?
Now you’re here, take a deep breath, and e-x-h-a-l-e…
See!
Don’t you feel better?
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