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.

September monthly tea subscription box moment with a cup of hibiscus tea, sugar cubes, a cookie and reflection cards
Pour Into Yourself

Comfort and Culture: Inside the September Tea Subscription Box

Three teas, a recipe, a cookie, sugar cubes, reflection cards and a seat at the virtual tea party. Order by the 8th, ships the 10th, and why September is Comfort and Culture.

Pour Into Yourself

Comfort and Culture: Inside the September Tea Subscription Box

Three teas, a recipe, a cookie, sugar cubes, reflection cards and a seat at the virtual tea party. Order by the 8th, ships the 10th, and why September is Comfort and Culture.

Erica Powers and her family at Christmas, the story behind A Tea Party In A Box
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My Christmas Story

My son's favorite memory is the last snow before everything changed. This is the story of the Christmas that broke, and the cup of tea that started putting us back together.

Pour Into Yourself

My Christmas Story

My son's favorite memory is the last snow before everything changed. This is the story of the Christmas that broke, and the cup of tea that started putting us back together.

Thanksgiving Reflections: Same Tea, Different Steeps
Pour Into Yourself

Thanksgiving Reflections: Same Tea, Different Steeps

The Steeping Chronicles, REAL side. The yearly debate with my mom about traveling for Thanksgiving, why I am choosing gratitude anyway, and the teas I am packing this year.

Pour Into Yourself

Thanksgiving Reflections: Same Tea, Different Steeps

The Steeping Chronicles, REAL side. The yearly debate with my mom about traveling for Thanksgiving, why I am choosing gratitude anyway, and the teas I am packing this year.

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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