Working in the alcohol industry, it’s likely that we’ve all experienced a mix of responses to our relationship to alcohol. It’s complicated and challenging, and it’s compounded by alcohol’s funding of our paychecks and livelihoods. Beck and I think that’s worth talking more about, and leaning into the challenges rather than shying away from them. That’s why, this week, we’re excited to share with the community our very first ABG Book Club pick: Finding Freedom,
this week our Guest Contributor Ashley Trout considers life 13 months into COVID.
As Spring in the northern hemisphere starts to take shape, Beck has been sensing a new-found feeling of hope, and a sense that the brighter days ahead are coming soon. Check out her top seven reasons to feel hopeful for the months and seasons ahead.
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.
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.
In Part II of the team’s look back at a year forever changed by COVID, Beck and Cathy share their personal perspectives.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
To celebrate the holidays, we created a simple drink recipe that we hope you can fid the time to prepare and savor.
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 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.
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
