Pour Into Yourself. I Mean It.

This is the real side. My love for tea started in a hard year at a kitchen table, with a cup between my hands because it was about the only thing I could manage that day. Then my kids started sitting down with me. We talked. That's where all of this came from. In here you'll find reflection questions, rest that doesn't require a spa day, and holidays that don't look the way they used to. Self care is not selfish, and making yourself a cup of tea counts. If you want that reminder to turn up every month without you asking, that's what the Tea Blossom Club is for.

The Steeping Chronicles October letter beside a floral teacup of tea on a kitchen table
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A Dream Steeped in Determination: Why I Opened The Tea Blossom in San Antonio

My October Steeping Chronicles letter, word for word: four years of carrying teacups, one tea room on McCullough Avenue, and why we're still steeping. Plus how to come sit with us.

Pour Into Yourself

A Dream Steeped in Determination: Why I Opened The Tea Blossom in San Antonio

My October Steeping Chronicles letter, word for word: four years of carrying teacups, one tea room on McCullough Avenue, and why we're still steeping. Plus how to come sit with us.

Office break room counter set for a workplace tea break with teapots, teacups and a tray of treats
Pour Into Yourself

Workplace Tea Breaks: Employee Appreciation That Beats Stale Coffee

15 minutes, one afternoon a month, everybody away from their screens. What a workplace tea break includes, why it beats a pizza lunch, and how to run one yourself.

Pour Into Yourself

Workplace Tea Breaks: Employee Appreciation That Beats Stale Coffee

15 minutes, one afternoon a month, everybody away from their screens. What a workplace tea break includes, why it beats a pizza lunch, and how to run one yourself.

10 Fall Journal Prompts to Sit With Over Tea This October
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10 Fall Journal Prompts to Sit With Over Tea This October

10 questions for October, with a line from me under each on why I ask it. Pour something warm and take them one at a time.

Pour Into Yourself

10 Fall Journal Prompts to Sit With Over Tea This October

10 questions for October, with a line from me under each on why I ask it. Pour something warm and take them one at a time.

Cozy fall self care ideas kit with 2 tea boxes, a mug, ginger snaps, a book and a blanket
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Cozy Season Starter Kit: What to Pair With Your October Box

5 pairings, a blanket, a book and a playlist. Here is how I build October into something that feels like a blanket instead of a to-do list.

Pour Into Yourself

Cozy Season Starter Kit: What to Pair With Your October Box

5 pairings, a blanket, a book and a playlist. Here is how I build October into something that feels like a blanket instead of a to-do list.

Guests passing a tea tin around a table while playing a conversation game for adults
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Talk Time: The Game That Gets Every Table Talking

The game I run at every tea party, written down at last. Pass a tin, let the music stop, and watch a quiet table start talking.

Pour Into Yourself

Talk Time: The Game That Gets Every Table Talking

The game I run at every tea party, written down at last. Pass a tin, let the music stop, and watch a quiet table start talking.

October tea subscription box moment with a warm cup, sugar cubes and reflection cards
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Inside the October Tea Subscription Box

What lands in every October box, how the 3 teas get chosen, the October 26 virtual tea party, and The Tea Blossom opening on the 10th. Order by the 12th.

Pour Into Yourself

Inside the October Tea Subscription Box

What lands in every October box, how the 3 teas get chosen, the October 26 virtual tea party, and The Tea Blossom opening on the 10th. Order by the 12th.

Questions about this one

What does pour into yourself actually mean?

It means taking care of you before you take care of everybody else, in whatever small way you can manage today. For me it is 1 cup, made properly, sat down with. It is not a routine you have to earn or a morning you have to optimize. It is 20 minutes where nobody needs anything from you.

Is a tea party for one silly?

No, and it is the version most of us need most. Put out a real cup instead of a travel mug, turn the phone face down, and let it steep without doing anything else while it does. The fuss is not fussiness. It is how you tell your own body that this bit counts.

What are the tea reflection questions?

They are single questions to sit with while the tea steeps, not a journaling prompt you have to finish. 1 question, 1 cup. I write 10 of them every month for my subscription box and I put some of them here, along with why I chose each one.

How do I make time for a tea ritual when my life is full?

Do not add it to the schedule. Attach it to something already happening. The first 10 minutes after everybody leaves, or the 20 after the house goes quiet. I have 5 children. If I waited around for a free afternoon it would never come.

Send Someone a Tea Party

I started packing these boxes so I could send my kitchen table to people I could not get to in person. Every one holds loose leaf tea and something to do while it steeps, because the part that matters is the hour you sit down for. Pick the one that sounds like the person you are sending it to.

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