07/13/2026
The Roots Have Grown Enough
I have spent a long time waiting for Naugh-Tea Nook to look established enough before I allowed myself to fully share it. Established enough. Polished enough. Big enough. Certain enough.
But roots do not wait for anyone to approve of them before they grow. They stretch through the dark. They search. They anchor themselves around stones and through difficult soil. Most of their work happens where no one can see it.
And then, one day, something emerges.
Naugh-Tea Nook is still a little sprout. I know that. It is still tender, changing, learning what it needs, and growing into what it will become. However, its roots have grown enough that it is ready to emerge.
So am I.
I have officially opened access to the Naugh-Tea Nook Patreon. It is a place where I can share more of the work that has been growing quietly beneath everything else: moon pages, tarot, rituals, hearth practices, journal prompts, workshops, reflection, tea, creativity, and the strange, beautiful process of becoming more of yourself.
I appreciate every person who chooses to support these new roots while they settle deeper into the soil.
Along with opening the Patreon, over the past several months, I found myself within a group of people that eventually collapsed. I could describe everything that happened. I could explain myself. I could defend the choices I made or carefully outline what belonged to whom.
I do not need to. What fell apart showed me something important. It showed me what my magic feels like. Sometimes a room collapses because it was never built to hold the person you are becoming. That does not necessarily make you wrong. It does not necessarily make the room evil. It does not mean every person standing inside it was terrible.
It simply means the structure could not hold what was growing there.
Not every room is meant to hold you.
Sometimes we remain in spaces that are too small because we remember fitting there once. We crouch. We fold ourselves inward. We lower our voices and tuck away pieces of ourselves so we do not make anyone uncomfortable.
But intuition grows a little like the mushroom in Alice in Wonderland.
One bite, and suddenly you are taller than the room.
Another, and you are so small you barely recognize yourself.
Growth does not always happen evenly. Sometimes you feel enormous. Sometimes you feel invisible. Sometimes the people around you become uncomfortable because they can feel that the version of you they understood is changing.
You may become too much for one room and too little for another.
I am ready to be too much.
I am ready to be too little.
I am ready to stop measuring myself according to the size of rooms I was never meant to remain inside. Instead, I have created a space where I fit. And once I found my own seat, I began placing chairs for other people.
Naugh-Tea Nook is that space.
It is not a place where everyone has to be at the same point in their journey. You do not have to know exactly what you believe. You do not have to be completely healed, perfectly confident, deeply experienced, or certain of where you are going.
You can sit while you are questioning, beginning, rebuilding, celebrating, while you are becoming someone you have never met before. There is a chair here for you.
I have learned that small does not mean imaginary. A sprout is already a plant. A beginning is already happening. A dream does not become real only when everyone else can see it.
Naugh-Tea Nook has grown through book clubs, tea blends, tarot cards, workshops, rituals, journal pages, pop-ups, conversations, mistakes, laughter, exhaustion, and the people who have continued to sit beside me while I figured out what this space was trying to become. It has grown through every person who told me they felt safe here.
Every person who found a book, a cup of tea, a card, a conversation, or a piece of themselves they did not realize they needed. It has also grown through me finally understanding that I do not have to separate my work from my magic, my writing, my hearth, my psychology, my community, or my personal journey.
They are all roots of the same tree.
Along with the Patreon, I am beginning to offer individual worksheets and workshops for those who want to explore specific pieces without joining the full monthly experience.
There will be spaces for reflection, creativity, intuition, tarot, moon work, personal growth, and the practical magic of creating a life that feels more like your own.
Naugh-Tea Nook will also be at a pop-up in Affton this weekend.
I will be bringing the shop out into the world again, including Solar Zest, my bright summer tea made with green tea, jasmine, lemon, ginger, lavender, and mint.
Solar Zest tastes like sunlight finding its way through green leaves. It is refreshing, sharp, soft, floral, and alive—all the things summer manages to be at once. Much like this season of Naugh-Tea Nook.
I am not waiting for everything to be finished before I call it real anymore. I am not waiting until the roots are ancient, the branches are full, and everyone can see the shape of the tree.
The roots have grown enough. The sprout has broken through. There is sunlight here. There are chairs waiting.
And I am finally ready to let you see what has been growing as it continues to grow and learn and share.
