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In the January 2025 edition, No. 25:
The Tea Infusiast News No. 25 edition shares a subscriber-only tea giveaway in honor the second anniversary of the newsletter. It also launches my Winter Rest Kit for Tea Lovers (online kit) and my Tea with Your Inner Critic online workshop. The newsletter is also where I first announced some very exciting new about the Toronto Tea Festival. AND MORE.
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Join me at my online workshop, Tea with Your Inner Critic.
Are you tired of battling or feeling belittled by your “inner critic?” I was!
For some time, I’ve worked to pay attention to that critical voice I often hear inside my head–the voice that critiques, questions, and makes me feel or act small. What’s more, I’ve managed to befriend my inner critic.
Here are some tea pairings–black and green teas–to serve with cookies. I hope you will enjoy these and buttery cookie pairings as much as I do!
Winter is cookie season! Cookies are my absolute favorite dessert. Seriously, I could easily rattle off 10 or more “favorite cookies!”
Make it easy to enjoy restorative and mindful tea sessions with my online Winter Rest Kit for Tea Lovers!
Instead of posting a list of my top teas for the year–especially since I published something like this not too long ago in my Surprise Teas of 2024 post-I thought I’d share my top tea experiences of 2024.
Before I share the list, I would like to clarify what I didn’t include on it.
I had tea sessions with friends in person and via Zoom that were really fun and, often, deeply meaningful in ways that are hard to share on a list like this. I didn’t include those. They felt too personal.
Tea Lovers: Why not make attending one or more of the 2025 tea festivals a priority this year? This post shares 26 (and counting!) tea festival dates and locations in the USA, Canada, Europe, and Japan!
Tea festivals are wonderful opportunities to connect with all things tea and other tea lovers.
As I wrote in “5 Tips for Attending Tea Festivals“:
Tea festivals are events open to the public (often requiring attendees to purchase tickets) that feature vendors and artisans (sometimes even producers) who sell tea, teaware, accessories, and related merchandise. They also usually sell tea sweets or other food items.
My monthly newsletter, Tea Infusiast News, is subscriber-only AND free.
In the December 2024 edition, No. 24:
You can’t tell from the table of contents, but this newsletter revealed the giveaway items before they were publicly announced AND they shared a sneak-peek at my early 2025 plans.
My experience at an online tea event underscored the power of communiTEA–the magic that happens when we connect over tea in community.
I’m going to be real, Tea Friends. I have been struggling a bit. I have been scrambling to catch up–and trying get ahead–in my personal and professional life. An upcoming surgery has me discombobulated. Besides the stress of working more to prepare, fear around that event has been an unwelcome and too-constant companion. It has been really hard to process the fear and to allow space for other feelings.
Meditating with others online helps. The practices I have learned as a meditation teacher help–particularly, to be with and breathe through my emotions. The charity tea event I recently held, Story of a Teacup 2024, also provided an unexpectedly wonderful boost.
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In the November 2024 edition, No. 23:
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