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How Teal Creek Teas came to be

Tolkien said “… Not all those who wander are lost…” but some of us wanderers believe ourselves to be lost. 

I was one of the lost ones, casting about for my path never knowing that I’d stepped on it the day I listened to an internal whisper to take a class. I’d always had a passing interest in herbs and using plants to make “concoctions” but my parents are from the old-school,  “you can’t make a career of playing with plants” so I didn’t explore the interest. I went out into the world, received several higher-ed degrees and started a career in an “appropriate field.” 

As happens to so many of us as time passes, we realize that the thing we “do all day” doesn’t land right within our soul. I was in a field that was draining the life from me but I kept going because I had responsibilities. I felt lost. Cast adrift from myself and searching with a desperation that was not becoming. I wanted so badly to find my path, my way, my true self that at first, I was unable to see that I’d found it or rather it found me. 

It started with a whisper in 2015, an urge to take an herbalism class. It was an introductory class, very general but I enjoyed the class and the subject matter immensely. From then on, there was a whispered voice inside me that said “get this book” on herbalism/herbal medicine making or take this class.  The voice was so quiet that I more often than not I almost missed it but I did as it instructed. I was fascinated as I read and took courses wanting to know more.. Every time the quiet voice said take a class or read a book I did, never knowing that I was laying the foundation for my path. 

As time progressed,with what I felt was no progress, I was getting more and more restless and fretful. I was working a job that I hated. It was becoming harder and harder to go to work and I didn’t know how long I could stay in this cycle. Meanwhile the little whisper of a voice told me in 2017 to make teas. To use the knowledge I’d been accumulating from herbalism courses and texts to make healthful teas. I didn’t see, know or understand how this was supposed to come to fruition while I worked at a place that was crushing my soul. But I did it. I started figuring out and working on healthful tea blends but progress was almost non existent because I didn’t have the energy I needed to truly focus on what the little voice was telling me to do. 

Then the light at the end of this long and dark tunnel appeared in 2019– another job. More than a job, a vocation to which I was much better suited in skill and in spirit. I said “yes” to the Universe and the world shifted. With a lightness in my spirit and an energy that hadn’t been present in years, I turned my focus and energy to tea making and following the little voice. This is when Teal Creek Teas was truly born.

My studies taught me that herbs can have a significant and positive impact on overall health. Improved health was something I wanted for myself and my family but none of us wanted to take handfuls of supplements multiple times a day, especially not my 4 year old. As I pondered how to make formulations for better health that would actually be consumed that voice, which in the past had been so quiet, loudly reminded me of my purpose: I was to make healthful teas that would support the body’s systems. I began in earnest to craft well balanced teas using adaptogens, nervines, alteratives and nutritives that were healthful and didn’t require a sweetener to be scrumptious. Teal Creek Teas was born from my desire to help people be more healthful. We are a human centric company that blends small batch, delicious, herbal teas that supports positive body system functions.

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