Author: iheartteas

Integrative Nutrition Health Coach with a passion for tea and all things related to health, fitness, and holistic wellness.

Chicago Tea Festival 2019

First Annual Chicago Tea Festival View this post on Instagram Day 3 and final day of @chiteafest. So far the experience has been positive. Today look out for more story posts of the vendors and a couple of lectures and workshops including the Tea & Bourbon Pairing this afternoon. Both panels I spoke in yesterday were a wonderful success. Thank… Read more →

NYC Tea Tour Day One

#NYCTeaTour: Day One First of all, I can’t believe I finally made it to New York with all my tea friends I made through our passion of tea.  Some of us met way back on Steepster others later on Instagram but one thing kept us together, our love of tea.  For years we met each other at World Tea Expo. … Read more →

Tea for Two…Four

Yesterday was Valentine’s Day and as a wife and mother of two and half (dog) it isn’t your typical candlelit dinner celebration with romance afoot anymore.  After twenty-two years of marriage Valentine’s Day and our idea of how to celebrate evolves over the years. These days a celebration is showing each family member how valued and loved they are.  Sure,… Read more →

WTE2018 – TEA BLOGGERS ROUNDTABLE ANNOUNCEMENT

  Wow, it has been some time since I have written.  I have gone back to school and I am about to graduate from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition.  This July I will be presented a certificate of completion and will officially be an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach.  It was a yearlong, time consuming, and comprehensive curriculum.  Totally worth the… Read more →

3 Week Elimination Diet: Day One

NO Gluten NO Dairy NO Eggs NO Soy NO Corn NO Alcohol Why? Determine what possible irritant is causing my perpetual abdominal bloating. All the listed items being eliminated are possible common irritants. The Elimination Diet I will be following is one suggested by Dr. Susan Blum as part of my education at The Institute of Integrative Nutrition. How? After… Read more →

Kombucha? Where to Start and Why

If you have ever seen how Kombucha is made you would have thought it came straight out of Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory. Kombucha is after all, ALIVE!!! In fact it is one of the healthiest of drinks you can put in your body. What is Kombucha? Kombucha (also tea mushroom, Manchurian mushroom, formal name: Medusomyces gisevii[1]) is a variety of fermented, lightly effervescent sweetened black or green tea drinks commonly intended as functional beverages for… Read more →

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