Welcome back! It’s been two weeks since I posted, but it’s only because last week was the Tea Talk! I continued my series on Food As Medicine and this time the topic was Plant Based Living. It went great! Lots of people turned out and enjoyed all the homemade refreshments, but I had a moment or two where I wasn’t sure things would work out. Let me tell you what happened…

 

The Talk was on Saturday morning, and I chose the date because really, it was the only option that I had to rent the space I was using. Unfortunately, I was working overnight Thursday night, but I had hoped that I’d sleep some and get home Friday morning to finish my preparations. Y’all know I practice obstetrics, right? Well, being on call at the hospital, especially one as busy as ours means anything can happen. Suffice it to say, I was up most of the night. I’ll spare you all the details, but I was up doing a cesarean at 3 am and got a couple of hours of broken sleep before and after that. Oh well…

 

 

I got home in the morning and started working my list. You know, I joke about my lists, but when I’m exhausted and my brain is fried, the list saves me from needing to think. I just execute. So that’s what I did. Between the volume of the tasks that needed to be done and my nerves that kept me from falling asleep, I worked all day and finished up in time for bed. By that time, I was so tired that I prayed and left it for God to work out. I hadn’t done nearly as much prep on my talk as I wanted, but I knew it would come together. It was His idea to do these talks anyway!

 

I got up at 450 am, meditated, and went on my prayer walk. On the way back I stopped at the clubhouse and meditated in the space, praying the whole time. I thought I’d be anxious because I hadn’t done the practice I wanted, but I wasn’t. I was ready and excited!

Around 830 I went up to the clubhouse and met up with my work crew. We got everything laid out – food, candles, flowers, seating and it was beautiful! (You can see the Facebook live before the Talk on my Facebook page if you want – it’s public!) And right before 10 am, people started arriving. We enjoyed refreshments and tea and had our Talk. If you want to see the actual Talk and the Q&A, those are also on my Facebook page available to the public. It went beautifully!

 

 

After my guests started arriving, everyone enjoyed the food and tea.

These were delicious! Not technically, plant based because of the organic cream I used, but really good!

 

 

This cake disappeared fast! It had a little sugar, but wasn’t too sweet and came out well…

 

 

I didn’t even get to eat this one – it’s a good thing I tasted it at home!

 

 

Everyone getting their food…

 

 

Enjoying one of my beautiful guests…

 

 

Eating before the talk…

 

It was a great time! I loved getting to share about Plant Based Living and everyone learned a lot. If you didn’t get to make it this time, maybe you can make it to the next one. I’m thinking about late winter or early spring, after I get through the holidays and all the birthdays in December and January…

 

Are you learning more about your food and healing your body? What are you doing to improve your health? If you came to the Talk, what did you enjoy the most? Please share in the comments below!