There are plenty of really great reasons to pick up a book and start reading. Maybe it’s “to learn stuff” , but this week Cathy considers that maybe, just maybe, it’s to escape. Check out Cathy’s Top 8 books of recent times.
Supporting ABG’s BIPOC Community with Action and Resources
Fresh from a thought-provoking Lift Collective virtual conference, Beck considers the ways we can step up and take action to support ABG’s BIPOC community.
COVID, Wellness and the Lessons We've Learned, Part Two
In Part II of the team’s look back at a year forever changed by COVID, Beck and Cathy share their personal perspectives.
COVID, Wellness and the Lessons We’ve Learned to Help Us Move Forward
This week marks one year since COVID changed our lives - here we kick off a two-part series on the ABG team's perspective on COVID, Wellness and the Lessons We’ve Learned to Help Us Move Forward.
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…
Getting My Life Back: The Sinclair Method for Alcohol Use Disorder
In this personal account, one ABG community member shares their perspective on the benefits fo The Sinclair Method to help treat alcohol use disorder in the hopes it can help others.
6 Quirky Tips for a Better Night’s Sleep
Lately it seems a lack of sleep seems to be an issue for many in our community, with the ongoing anxiety and stress from longer work hours, demands on home life and the constant shifting needs. Here are six more unusual tools that I have found to help myself get to, and stay, asleep.
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.
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?
Top 5 Gamechangers from the 2021 Global Wellness Institute Trend Report
Earlier this week, the Global Wellness Institute released their annual trend report with nine predictions impacting the global wellness industry in the year to come. Here are the top five trends I see as being gamechangers, and topics we have our ABG eye on as we head into 2021.
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.
Raising a Glass to You.
To celebrate the holidays, we created a simple drink recipe that we hope you can fid the time to prepare and savor.
Holiday Hacks from the ABG Community
With only 13 days until we can officially turn the page on 2020, you all deserve an enormous hug for getting through one hell of a year. So with many of our friends and family at their wits end, we turn to our ABG community to see what they are looking for to find some reprieve and sanity during the closing days that is to survive the sh*t show of 2020.
Here are ways they are planning to 'hack' the holidays:
Women in Wellness: A Focus on Entrepreneurship
Women are more impacted by the pandemic, yet more women are likely to start a business. This week Cathy tackles the reasons why staring something new in uncertain times.
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
Turn The Volume Down a Notch. Here's How.
Over the past months, I’ve noticed that what may have once been simple tasks seem more difficult, and with societal pressures to stay "busy," many of us continue to hold ourselves accountable to levels of activity that are no longer attainable. And what can feel unattainable. So this week the request is simple…
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.
"Work Like You Don't Have a Child. Parent Like You Don't Have a Job." The ABG Community at the Crux of the Impossible
"Work Like You Don't Have a Child. Parent Like You Don't Have a Job." Welcome to parenting, the 2020 version. It’s time to talk about it. That is exactly what we’ll do on Monday’s webinar, and we hope very much you’ll join us. Whether or not you yourself are a parent, you undoubtedly know someone who is. Monday’s webinar is for you too, to gain some insights of this aspect of the pandemic reality for friends and colleagues.