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!
All in Mindfulness
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:
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?
Four Quirky Wellness Ideas to Shape Your New Habits for the Year Ahead
In her first post fo 2021, this week Cathy considers some of her new habits that fall outside the category of alcohol consumption while still inside the realm of wellness, mindfulness and health.
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.
UPDATED: Your Special Invitation: The ABG Shop is OPEN!
Just in time for the Holiday season, we share the inaugural ABG merchandise shop! Check out a few ways to support the ABG cause this shopping season
A Letter of Apology to Non-Drinkers in Wine - And Action Items For A Better Drinking Culture
I owe an apology to the non-drinkers who entered my tasting room - I probably left you feeling out in the cold. I just didn’t know any better and I didn’t “see” you.
Silence as a Way to “Do Not Disturb”
Getting quiet is not easy in our world of sensory overload, and it seems harder and harder to find that safe space to get quiet and listen. This week Beck considers how taking a high-desert break in nature can help recalibrate with "a “do not disturb” sign.
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”.
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!
Edging from Mud to Lotus: Revised to Bloom
“No mud. No lotus.” It’s a quote that’s usually attributed to Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, but any one of us can recognize the formulation: first the challenge, then the reward. It’s safe to say, I think, that we’re all fairly mud-slicked right now.
What To Drink When You’re Not Drinking – Discoveries from the Global Mindful Drinking Festival
This past weekend, Guest Contributor, Martha Wright attended her first Global Mindful Drinking Festival and made some exciting discoveries she wanted to share.
Who To Trust
Under times of duress, we forget who to trust the most. Right now, when it seems like “out there” has never been such a mess, we forget about the resource that’s “in here.” Let me put it this way. Who to trust, is YOU.
This Is Not A Pep Talk. (But Feel Free to Listen Up)
In a world where every 24 hours is a whole new reality, and as we struggle to keep things together, I want to share some small reminders to help you keep that light of hope in your heart to keep going. Consider this the ‘pep talk’ you didn’t ask for.
How to Use This Powerful Tool for Resilience, Courage and Clarity
Last week, to open the online workshop we led for Dream Big Darling’s Ready.Set.GROW! series, Rachel Collier spoke about the benefits and the medical research behind creative writing.
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.
Here’s What’s Good for Us “In Theory.” And Here’s the Reality.
Welcome to our current world, with its differences between the things that are good for us in theory, and the things we actually end up doing. This week, I’d also like to do a gut-check on a few of the things that are good for us “in theory” in relation to the reality of our world right now.
What the Wisest Part of You Knows
“How would the wisest part of you respond?”. This is the question that Cathy Huyghe considers in this week’s post, sharing insights about how the times that pausing to ask that question quietly has proved especially helpful.