Herbal Tea · Ritual · Soul Work
Tea and ritual for the seasons of the heart.
For individuals moving through grief, endings and new beginnings. A warm cup, a little Chinese medicine wisdom, and a lot of honesty: letting go in the fall, and beginning again in the spring.
A gift for your first cup
Seasons of the Heart
A five-season tea ritual companion. Find the season your heart is in right now, not the one on the calendar, and meet it with a blend, a ten-minute ritual and one question to carry through your week.
Spring · Wood
Beginning Again
Nettle, violet and self heal
Summer · Fire
The Open Heart
Rose, hawthorn and linden
Late Summer · Earth
The Golden Hinge
Chamomile and tulsi
Autumn · Metal
Letting Go
Hawthorn berry, linden and rose
Winter · Water
Deep Rest
Chamomile, violet and tulsi
You might be here because…
You are grieving a loss, or an ending no one else can quite see.
The house is quieter than it used to be.
You haven't felt quite like yourself in a while.
You are ready to begin again, and you'd like some company on the way.
Pull up a chair. The kettle is on.
The Book · Coming Soon
The Gilded Leaf
An Emotional Atlas of Herbal Companionship
Some books are meant to be read once. This one is meant to sit beside your teacup. Nine plant companions, nine matters of the heart, and the rituals that help us tend them, from nettle and codependency to hawthorn and grief.
In print, ebook and audiobook, read by me.
Ways to steep with me
Come as you are. Stay as long as you like.
Free · Every Wednesday
The Weekly Steep
One herb, one cup, and the story it carries, delivered to your inbox with the podcast and the Sunday tea table.
Subscribe freeSpring 2027 · 8 weeks · Small circle
Beginning Again
A seasonal cohort for individuals ready to begin again after an ending. Weekly rituals, blends from my table, and a small circle of people walking it together.
Join the waitlistComing soon · 15 places
The Gilded Table Retreat
A few unhurried days of tea, ritual, slow suppers and quiet, held for fifteen participants at the turn of the season.
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From my tea table to yours
About Bridget
I've spent my life sitting with people in their hardest seasons.
Before tea, I spent years in social work: mental health work with children and adults, hospice, and medical social work. Chinese medicine gave me the language of the seasons. Tea gave me a way to hold it all in my hands.
I hold a master's degree in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. This book walks alongside your care.
Bridget Mitchell, founder of The Gilded Leaf
