I’m getting ready for Spill the Tea workshop. It’s my first workshop offering as a Clinical Herbalist about herbs. I’m knee deep in the throws of single motherhood, living on a hope wish and a prayer. No one has signed up yet, but every day, I wake up, I open the blinds and greet the day and think, this is it! It’s all going to work. It’s going to fall into place and everyone will be purchasing tickets to my events and hiring me to be their herbalist. I’ve got this!

It’s really fucking hard to keep showing up, but I’m here. I am trusting spirit that this is my path and this is what I’m meant to be doing. If this workshop flops, it flops, and I can try again, and it could also be successful! So what can I do in the meantime to try to get it there?

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So, with that in mind, I wanted to share with you how I make my cup of tea.

Herbal tea doesn't have to be complicated. You can intuitively grab whatever you like each time you make a cup and 9/10 it’s going to be wonderful.

Here are some extra tips

🫖 Make sure you have a strainer. It makes the experience less enjoyable, personally, if the herbs are floating around in your cup.

🫖 You always want to cover your brew to keep the medicine inside your cup. The boiled water causes the volatile oils to rise to the surface and out of your cup. If you have a cover, they stay in, sinking back down through the process of condensation.

🫖 Choosing your herbs is crucial to a good tea drinking experience. Unless you're purely in it for the medicine, some herbs taste really rank! Those are the bitter ones usually, but they can be balanced through the art of tea blending.

This is a skill you can master to create the perfect combo of medicinal and delicious!

And that’s where Spill the Tea comes into play!
I am running a workshop on tea-blending May 6th at Camp Kawartha in Peterborough.

We're going to

☕ Taste test a bunch of herbs
☕ learn what we like and don't like
☕ learn about the medicinal properties of the herbs
☕ create a custom blend that's both delicious and medicinal!

So! If this sounds like something you’d like to learn! Join me.

—Nessa