Sober Not Somber Hour: Harvest

Oh, my goodness. Hello, everyone. Jen Barale here. Multiple attempts at streaming today, and I'm not sure what's going on. Last week gave me issue as well, and I don't know if it's my wi fi or what is the cause of it, but regardless, I'm going to share a little bit here and just post it later. Yeah, see, you can all get a little bit of the Sober not Somber hour at whatever hour. Yeah. So as I was saying, today's bed of choice is this sweet little bottle of Prima Pave. And this is made at an Italian vineyard.

It's a de alcoholized wine, which means it was originally alcohol wine in the beginning and through a process. I was wondering when that was gonna happen. Well, that's fun. Through a process, they dealkolize it. So 0% alcohol and bubbles. Bubbles. It actually like really bubbled up this time for me. That's okay. We're cool with that. Just look at that. The effervescence of it. I love it. They have white varietals, up to five different varieties, and I love serving these in like a. As a replacement for champagne.

So Sober not somber hour is really all about a celebrated sober life and welcoming you into the possibility that even if you're not an alcoholic or have defined yourself as that or a problem drinker, you can still have a slippery slope in a relationship with alcohol. And just removing it from your life entirely for anyone is going to be beneficial in many ways. You know, alcohol is ethanol. It's toxic. The surgeon General in January of this year finally said it is linked to seven types of cancer.

And as you know, the labels for alcohol and are very inadequate. It's basically if you're, you know, pregnant or operating heavy machinery, you maybe shouldn't have it. So I think our definition of alcohol as it relates to our health and care of ourselves is expanding. It's opening. The truth is being revealed. So here we are. This is the month where the Cadre contributors are all talking about the theme of harvest. And I love this term. I'm actually from a small town in southwestern Minnesota, and harvest season meant a lot of things.

And I think it's the idea of, you know, seasonal where we're at in life and also connecting this topic of harvesting to a resource and sort of like abundance and gratitude. So I will share with you just some. Some tips that I've been thinking about in terms of harvest. And sometimes and many times in the last year, even for me, abundance and like, access to things has been fleeting in many ways, but I'm also very grateful. So I have been able to dig deeper. So when I think of harvesting, I think of, you know, what.

What's underneath the surface. What's underneath the surface of what we can see and is obvious. Wow, that is. Oh, my gosh. So, so good. I hope you have an NA beverage in hand as you're listening to this. What is right underneath the surface that we don't often see or feel like we have access to? And one of my tips for finding and harvesting this abundance is being in community with others. So sometimes I have found that I just get sort of overwhelmed with my. My own thoughts. And one of the things that gets me out of that is the ability to be in community and have others reflect what they see as abundance in my life.

And I feel like that is one of the single most things to kind of get out of my mindset of. If I'm not practicing gratitude or if I can't see that there is abundance, I look to friends and community, and they. They're great about pointing that out or just acknowledging that that is right there. I have access to harvest.