The Tea Time Podcast

Sharissa Bradley
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Welcome — I'm Sharissa Bradley. This channel is a space for honest conversations, lived experience, and the ongoing process of healing, reflection, and growth. Here you'll find content centered on the mind–body connection, emotional awareness, and the stories we carry as we learn to come back to ourselves. I'm an author, publisher, and podcast host, and much of what I share comes from my personal health journey and the work of listening to my body after years of survival-mode living. This channel includes the Tea Time Podcast, where I share real-time reflections and healing experiences — not medical advice, but honest storytelling. You'll find conversations about healing, nourishment, body trust, writing, and community. My hope is that this space feels grounding and human — a place to reflect, listen, and take what resonates with you. New podcast episodes are released weekly. Thank you for being here.

  1. Knowing Is Not Enough: Why You Still Don't Take Action | Chapter 8

    3H AGO

    Knowing Is Not Enough: Why You Still Don't Take Action | Chapter 8

    In this episode of the Tea Time Podcast, Sharissa Bradley continues the Journey Back to Health series with Chapter Eight: Knowing Is Not Enough  Drawing from her graduate research in psychology, Sharissa reflects on a central question: why do we know what's good for us — yet still struggle to take action? From studying children sorting "good for me" foods to testing adults on health knowledge, she observed the same pattern across ages: awareness does not automatically lead to behavior change. Despite unlimited access to health information today, rates of chronic illness continue rising. The issue isn't knowledge — it's implementation. This episode connects back to earlier chapters on brain resistance and energy conservation, explaining why large, sweeping goals often fail. Sharissa shares practical examples, including breaking down exercise habits into small, manageable steps (like 20-minute YouTube workouts between clients), wearing flexible clothing, and using visible reminders to reduce friction. The core takeaway: massive Monday overhauls don't work. Tiny, achievable action steps do. The action step for this chapter is simple — share what you're learning with someone. Accountability and community help bridge the gap between knowing and doing. This episode reflects lived experience, not medical advice.   ⏱ Timestamps 00:00 – Welcome & Chapter 8 introduction 01:00 – Graduate research on health knowledge 02:00 – Rising chronic illness despite access to information 03:00 – Brain resistance & energy conservation 04:00 – Lofty goals vs. achievable habits 05:00 – The "Monday overhaul" trap 06:00 – Breaking exercise into tiny steps 07:00 – Reducing friction & setting reminders 08:00 – Baby steps toward habits 09:00 – The accountability action step 10:00 – Closing encouragement   🔗 Links & Resources Download the free Journey Back to Health Workbook: https://sharissabradley.com/extras Join the Tea Time Podcast Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2034745363989749/

    10 min
  2. Superhero Complex — Taking Off the Cape

    FEB 24

    Superhero Complex — Taking Off the Cape

    In this episode of the Tea Time Podcast, Sharissa Bradley continues the Journey Back to Health series with Chapter Seven: Superhero Complex. This short but powerful chapter explores the tendency to "wear the superhero cape" — trying to do everything, be everything, and meet everyone's needs while personal health quietly suffers. Sharissa reflects on how overextending herself often leads to neglecting sleep, hydration, nourishment, exercise, and rest. Using the familiar oxygen mask analogy, she emphasizes the importance of meeting your own basic needs first. While certain life seasons (like caring for a newborn) may temporarily require self-sacrifice, consistently ignoring your own well-being creates long-term consequences. This episode introduces the concept of a "Joy List" — a simple, physical list of small and big activities that bring personal joy. From freezer meal prep and reading to gardening, watching Netflix, or enjoying a favorite meal, Sharissa encourages listeners to identify what fills their cup. The action step is simple: remove the cape and do one small thing this week that brings you joy. This episode reflects lived experience, not medical advice.   ⏱ Timestamps 00:00 – Welcome & Chapter 7 introduction 01:00 – What is the Superhero Complex? 02:00 – When health suffers 02:30 – Oxygen mask analogy 03:30 – People pleasing vs. true necessity 04:00 – Identifying neglected basic needs 04:30 – Introducing the Joy List 05:00 – Examples of joyful activities 06:00 – Small moments of joy 07:00 – Making joy visible & habitual 07:45 – Personal joy commitment 08:00 – Action steps & encouragement   🔗 Links & Resources Download the free Journey Back to Health Workbook: https://sharissabradley.com/extras Join the Tea Time Podcast Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2034745363989749/ Instagram: @sharissabradley.author

    9 min
  3. Emotional Connections: Comfort, Food, and Memory

    FEB 17

    Emotional Connections: Comfort, Food, and Memory

    In this episode of the Tea Time Podcast, Sharissa Bradley continues the Journey Back to Health series with Chapter Six: Emotional Connections. This chapter explores the powerful emotional ties we build around food — especially comfort foods connected to memory, safety, and love. Sharissa shares a personal story about cookies and tea with her grandmother, and how that ritual created a deep emotional pathway tied to warmth, belonging, and connection. After being diagnosed with celiac disease and eliminating gluten, she lost the ability to access that comfort in spontaneous ways. This episode unpacks the emotional deficit that can occur when healing protocols, elimination diets, or food restrictions remove not just ingredients — but emotional anchors. Sharissa encourages listeners to examine their own comfort foods and find ways to make nourishing swaps that preserve emotional connection without creating deprivation. From gluten-free baking to creative substitutions like sweet potato chips or vegetable-packed nachos, this episode focuses on reclaiming comfort safely. This episode reflects lived experience, not medical advice.   ⏱ Timestamps 00:00 – Welcome & Chapter 6 introduction 01:00 – Cookies, tea & grandmother memories 02:00 – Celiac diagnosis & losing comfort 03:00 – Emotional deprivation during healing 04:00 – Recipe swaps & nourishment 05:00 – High nutrient dense substitutions 06:00 – Nostalgia & grandmother's birthday 07:00 – Recreating comfort through scent & taste 08:00 – Encouragement & closing   🔗 Links & Resources Download the free Journey Back to Health Workbook: https://sharissabradley.com/extras Join the Tea Time Podcast Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2034745363989749/ Watch this on youtube: https://youtu.be/VjoSDx8t03g

    8 min
  4. Find Your Why: The Foundation of Healing

    FEB 10

    Find Your Why: The Foundation of Healing

    In this episode of the Tea Time Podcast, Sharissa Bradley continues the Journey Back to Health series with Chapter Five: Find Your Why. Sharissa shares why this chapter may be the most foundational part of the entire healing journey. While habit formation, elimination diets, detox, and lifestyle shifts all matter, none of them sustain without a deeply rooted reason for change. Drawing from her personal experience growing up with a chronically ill mother and later becoming a sick mom herself, Sharissa explains how her "why" became anchored in not wanting her children to experience the same absence she felt. She reflects on navigating autoimmune disease, adrenal fatigue, brain fog, inflammation, and years of extreme dietary changes — including two years without coffee, caffeine, sugar, dairy, or chocolate. This episode moves into practical action steps from the book, including writing out what your healthiest self would be able to do, rebuilding physical goals, reclaiming activities that were lost to illness, and building a support team that can help you stay anchored when things feel hard. Sharissa also vulnerably shares that her own healing journey feels like it has backslid recently, with increased nausea and fear-based thoughts resurfacing — reminding listeners that healing is rarely linear. ***This episode is lived experience, not medical advice.   ⏱ Timestamps 00:00 – Welcome & Chapter 5 introduction 01:00 – Why this chapter is foundational 02:00 – Growing up with a chronically ill mother 03:00 – Becoming a sick mom & finding her why 04:00 – Elimination diets & extreme change 05:00 – Why willpower isn't enough 06:00 – Writing your healthiest-self list 07:00 – What illness stole 08:00 – Inflammation, joint pain & flare-ups 09:00 – Two-year healing timeline 10:00 – Reclaiming reading & daily activities 11:00 – Building your support team 12:00 – Paid support & outside help 13:00 – Reaching out & asking for support 14:00 – Current nausea setbacks 15:00 – Fear spirals & mental chatter 16:00 – Multiple habits & rewiring stories 17:00 – Grace, gentleness & encouragement   🔗 Links & Resources Download the free Journey Back to Health Workbook: https://sharissabradley.com/extras Join the Tea Time Podcast Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2034745363989749/

    17 min
  5. A Brain Resistant to Change: Why New Habits Take Time

    FEB 3

    A Brain Resistant to Change: Why New Habits Take Time

    In this episode of the Tea Time Podcast, Sharissa Bradley continues the Journey Back to Health series with Chapter Four: A Brain Resistant to Change. This episode builds on previous conversations about habits and brain energy, expanding into why habit change requires more than willpower or motivation. Sharissa explains how habit change involves breaking down what we are actually trying to change and why attempting multiple new habits at once often leads to frustration. Drawing from The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, she discusses how long it takes to form a habit and why deeply ingrained patterns require extended timelines and intentional prioritization. Using her own experience with rebuilding eating habits, exercise routines, and stress responses, Sharissa shares vulnerably about setbacks, nausea, emotional responses, and the humility required to heal in real time. She emphasizes the importance of grace, realistic timelines, reminders, and rewards when working against long-established brain pathways. This episode closes with actionable guidance from Chapter Four, encouraging listeners to choose one habit at a time, set reminders, create incentives, and give themselves compassion while doing hard work. Timestamps 00:00 – Welcome & Chapter 4 introduction 01:00 – Habits require more than willpower 02:00 – The Power of Habit & research 03:00 – Adrenaline-based systems & haste 04:00 – Action steps: identifying habits 05:00 – Breakfast habit struggles 06:00 – Setbacks, nausea & grace 07:00 – Unlearning stress patterns 08:00 – Realistic habit timelines 09:00 – One habit at a time 10:00 – Setting reminders 11:00 – Rewards & positive reinforcement 12:30 – Encouragement & vulnerability 13:45 – Closing Links & Resources Download the Journey Back to Health Workbook (free): https://sharissabradley.com/extras Join the Tea Time Podcast Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2034745363989749/

    14 min
  6. Wired This Way: Why Changing Habits Is So Hard | Journey Back to Health Chapter 3

    JAN 27

    Wired This Way: Why Changing Habits Is So Hard | Journey Back to Health Chapter 3

    In this episode of the Tea Time Podcast, Sharissa Bradley continues the Journey Back to Health series by working through Chapter Three, Wired This Way. This chapter explores how the brain is designed to follow familiar pathways and why changing habits requires so much mental energy, patience, and grace. Sharissa explains how repeated behaviors become automatic, using everyday examples like driving home without remembering the trip. She reflects on how long-standing patterns around food — formed in early childhood — are not easily changed because the brain naturally seeks the fastest, least energy-intensive route. The episode includes a powerful illustration using rat maze research to show how new habits light up the brain and require significant effort, while repeated behaviors become more efficient over time. Sharissa connects this science to her own current healing work, including rebuilding consistent eating habits and navigating the mental exhaustion that comes with change. She encourages listeners to recognize that exhaustion, headaches, and the need for more rest can be normal when building new habits. The episode closes with Chapter Three action steps, inviting listeners to track daily routines, identify where space exists for change, and practice grace while laying the foundation for healthier patterns. Timestamps 00:00 – Welcome & Chapter 3 introduction 01:00 – Habitual brain pathways explained 02:00 – Grace with long-standing patterns 02:40 – Brain hemispheres & internal conflict 03:00 – Rat maze research & habit formation 04:30 – Mental energy required for new habits 05:40 – Personal healing goals & exhaustion 07:00 – Going against old pathways 08:00 – Current healing update 09:00 – Chapter 3 action steps 11:00 – Tracking routines & finding space 13:00 – Boundaries, priorities & grace 14:30 – Closing & next chapter preview Links & Resources Download the Journey Back to Health Workbook (free): https://sharissabradley.com/extras Join the Tea Time Podcast Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2034745363989749/ Follow along on instagram: @sharissabradley_author

    15 min
  7. Beliefs, Worthiness, and Healing — Journey Back to Health Chapter 2

    JAN 20

    Beliefs, Worthiness, and Healing — Journey Back to Health Chapter 2

    In this episode of the Tea Time Podcast, Sharissa Bradley continues the Journey Back to Health series by working through Chapter Two: Beliefs. This chapter focuses on the thoughts, attitudes, and belief systems that shape our ability to heal — and how early experiences can quietly influence our relationship with food, care, and worthiness. Sharissa shares vulnerably about her ongoing struggle with nausea, eating consistently, and the emotional weight tied to food. She recounts a recent experience trying to eat peanut butter toast and how that moment revealed deeper beliefs about shame, pressure, and self-worth. Revisiting the time when she was healing from autoimmune disease, Sharissa reflects on how mindset work — particularly with coach Tonya Rineer — helped her recognize the damaging beliefs she carried about her body. She explains how language like "my body is trying to kill me" reinforced fear and despair, and how shifting those beliefs became essential to healing. The episode also explores childhood poverty, food insecurity, and the impact of unmet basic needs through the lens of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Sharissa connects these early experiences to present-day challenges around nourishment, care, and self-compassion. This episode invites listeners to gently examine their own beliefs, worthiness, and the stories they may still be carrying — and to begin releasing what no longer serves them. Timestamps 00:00 – Welcome & continuing the series 01:00 – Struggles with food and self-judgment 02:30 – Peanut butter toast & vulnerability 03:30 – Grace and meeting yourself where you are 04:00 – Healing autoimmune disease & mindset work 05:00 – "My body is trying to kill me" 06:00 – Reframing worthiness and beliefs 07:00 – Childhood poverty & unmet needs 09:00 – Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs 10:30 – Relearning worthiness as an adult 12:00 – Examining beliefs and releasing old stories 13:30 – Encouragement & closing Links & Resources Download the Journey Back to Health Workbook (free): https://sharissabradley.com/extras Join the Tea Time Podcast Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2034745363989749/

    14 min
  8. Changing Perspective: Beginning the Journey Back to Health

    JAN 13

    Changing Perspective: Beginning the Journey Back to Health

    In this episode of the Tea Time Podcast, Sharissa Bradley officially begins the Journey Back to Health series by working through Chapter One of her book. This episode marks the start of a weekly practice where Sharissa uses her own book as a tool to support her current healing journey — particularly around disordered eating, rebuilding hunger cues, and caring for her body as she enters perimenopause. Sharissa reflects on rereading her book for the first time in years and noticing how far she has come since healing from autoimmune disease. She shares how revisiting her earlier symptoms gives her perspective, gratitude, and hope — not just for herself, but for anyone currently struggling with health challenges. Chapter One focuses on changing perspective. Sharissa discusses how beliefs formed early in life, family health narratives, and learned responses to illness shape how we treat our bodies. She reads a quote by Viktor Frankl and explains how the space between stimulus and response offers an opportunity to choose differently and begin healing. The episode closes with the Chapter One action steps and an invitation to work through the book together using the free workbook and community space. Timestamps 00:00 – Welcome & beginning the series 01:00 – Why this journey matters now 02:30 – Rereading the book with fresh perspective 04:00 – Reflecting on healing from autoimmune disease 05:30 – Hope for those currently struggling 07:00 – Personal history and the beginning of the book 08:00 – Chapter One: Changing perspective 08:30 – Viktor Frankl quote and choice 10:00 – Listening to the body and rebuilding intuition 11:30 – Action steps for Chapter One 14:00 – Invitation to community & closing Links & Resources Download the Journey Back to Health Workbook (free): https://sharissabradley.com/extras Join the Tea Time Podcast Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2034745363989749/ Watch on youtube: https://youtu.be/eLb1EOrdMQc

    15 min
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Welcome — I'm Sharissa Bradley. This channel is a space for honest conversations, lived experience, and the ongoing process of healing, reflection, and growth. Here you'll find content centered on the mind–body connection, emotional awareness, and the stories we carry as we learn to come back to ourselves. I'm an author, publisher, and podcast host, and much of what I share comes from my personal health journey and the work of listening to my body after years of survival-mode living. This channel includes the Tea Time Podcast, where I share real-time reflections and healing experiences — not medical advice, but honest storytelling. You'll find conversations about healing, nourishment, body trust, writing, and community. My hope is that this space feels grounding and human — a place to reflect, listen, and take what resonates with you. New podcast episodes are released weekly. Thank you for being here.

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  • Creator
    Sharissa Bradley
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    68
  • Rating
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    The Tea Time Podcast