Tea Time With Toniya

Toniya Rachelle
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Spilling the tea as we navigate through this thing called life. Revamped & ready to go. Thank you all so much for joining me on this journey! ❤️

Episodes

  1. FEB 12

    Spilling the Tea on Codependency: When Love Feels Like Responsibility Instead of Rest

    Being needed can feel like love.Until it starts to feel like pressure. This episode is an honest conversation about codependency: the over-giving, the people-pleasing, and the quiet habit of managing everyone else’s emotions while ignoring your own. If you’ve ever felt responsible for someone else’s feelings or struggled to name your own needs, this one is for you. Healthy relationships require mutual care, not silent sacrifice. ✨ Affirmation: “I am worthy of love that does not require me to disappear.”✨ This Week’s Mood Swing & Melody: “Bag Lady” — Erykah Badu ✨ Follow, rate, and share this episode✨ Tap into more soft-life tools and healing resources at https://www.teatimewithtoniya.com Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and iHeartRadio 📓 Grab your healing-coded planner This Might Help, Idk — available now on Amazon:https://a.co/d/05b6O2XW 🌿 Explore more wellness tools at https://www.teatimewithtoniya.com #EmotionalBoundaries #HealthyRelationships #PeoplePleasingRecovery #MentalHealthPodcast #WomeninWellness #BlackOwnedPodcast #AttachmentStyles #SelfWorth #EmotionalIntelligence #MentalHealthPodcast #RelationshipHealing #BlackWomenHealing#MillennialWellness

    47 min

  2. JAN 28 · BONUS

    Between Sips: 2026 - Soft, Certain & Standing on Business ⁠(BONUS EPISODE)

    2026 feels different.And so do I. This bonus episode is a bold, honest pour on self-esteem, emotional intelligence, and letting go of what dulled my shine in 2025. We’re talking detaching in love, rejecting cynicism, releasing negative influences and deepening spiritual growth. No shrinking.No over explaining.Just self-love, clarity, and a softer confidence that stands on business. ✨ Affirmation: “I trust who I am becoming.”✨ This Week's Mood Swing & Melody: “Again” — Faith Evans ✨ Follow, rate, and share this episode✨ Tap into more soft-life tools and healing resources at ⁠⁠www.teatimewithtoniya.com⁠

    53 min

  3. 12/09/2025

    Spilling the Tea on Ovaries, Options & Other Stressors: A Gentle Return to Your Own Timing

    There’s a quiet conversation that lives in the space between who we are and who we’re told to be.And for so many of us, that conversation begins with the womb. This episode opens a soft doorway into that truth —the pressure, the hope, the fear, the curiosity,and the subtle strength it takes to hold all of that at once… Together, we unpack the emotional landscape of fertility in your 30s with honesty and tenderness — without the timelines the world tries to hand you. Whether you’re hopeful, uncertain, grieving, exploring, or simply trying to make sense of your own desires, this pour meets you without judgment.Your pace is sacred.And your story does not have to mirror anyone else’s to be valid. ✨ Episode Affirmation: “My timeline is mine alone.” ✨ Follow, rate, and share this episode✨ Tap into more soft-life tools and healing resources at ⁠www.teatimewithtoniya.com #WomensWellness #SoftLifeSeason #EmotionalWellness #HealingPodcast #SelfHealingJourney #SoftLifeCollective #WellnessPodcast #MindBodySoul #HolisticHealing #WomenSupportingWomen #PodcastForWomen

    42 min

  4. 11/26/2025

    Spilling the Tea on Being the Strong Friend & Eldest Daughter: Built for tough love, but can I get a break?

    This pour is dedicated to the strong friend.The eldest daughter.The one built for crisis, comfort, and tough love — but rarely offered a moment to breathe. In this episode, we’re naming the quiet exhaustion that comes with always being “the responsible one,” the unspoken expectations placed on eldest daughters, and the emotional weight of holding everyone without ever being held. We’re exploring the freeze that happens when someone asks “What do you need?”, the way hyper-independence becomes armor, and how childhood roles quietly shape our adult relationships, boundaries, and capacity. This week’s affirmation — “I am allowed to be held, not just hold.” — becomes our anchor as we talk about softness, rest, and releasing the pressure to always be the strong one. ✨ Follow, rate, and share this episode with the strong friend or eldest daughter in your life✨ Tap into more soft-life tools and healing resources at www.teatimewithtoniya.com✨ And don’t forget — the Sip & Save Soirée sale is happening this Friday. Stock up on journals, candles, mugs, and soft-life essentials while you listen.

    39 min

  5. 11/12/2025

    Spilling the Tea on the Housewives Universe: A Cultural Reset That’s Become a Huge Disappointment

    This one’s for the OGs who raised us. 👑 In this episode of Tea Time with Toniya, I’m joined by my favorite Bravo bestie, Jarell Jackson, to celebrate (and lightly drag) the Housewives Universe — the franchise that taught us how to read with grace, sip with class, and shade with intention. From Atlanta’s golden era to today’s chaos-without-context, we’re honoring the women who made luxury feel attainable and delusion feel divine. 💭 “I honor the joy that shaped me—even when it’s no longer what it used to be.” 📓 Grab your healing-coded planner This Might Help, Idk—available now on Amazon. 🌿 Explore more tools at teatimewithtoniya.com #SoftLifePodcast #PopCulturePodcast #RealityTVPodcast #HousewivesEra #RHOA #CulturalReset #LuxuryWellness #HealingJourney #WellnessMeetsCulture

    56 min

  6. 11/05/2025 · BONUS

    Between Sips: The Intro Pour (BONUS EPISODE)

    This episode was curated with intention—to open up, reintroduce myself, and share the story behind the mic. Whether you’re new here or you’ve been sipping with me since the beginning, this pour is for you. I’m sharing what led me to start (and restart) this podcast, how love, heartbreak, and emotional clarity shaped my healing, and why I’m choosing to process publicly—with softness, transparency, and legacy-coded truth. This is a sacred catch-up. A soft reset. A reminder that healing isn’t linear—and neither is storytelling. 🎙️ Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and iHeartRadio 📓 Grab your healing-coded planner This Might Help, Idk—available now on Amazon. 🌿 Explore more tools at teatimewithtoniya.com #HealingPodcast #EmotionalHealingJourney #MindsetReset #FaithBasedHealing #BetweenSipsPodcast

    1h 2m

  7. 10/28/2025

    Spilling the Tea on Unlearning Toxic Mindsets: Reprogramming Your Brain Like an iOS Update

    Sometimes healing sounds like:“Wait… so that wasn’t normal?”In this episode, we’re naming the toxic beliefs we were taught to carry—mindsets that once felt like survival but now feel like sabotage. From hustle trauma to emotional suppression, we’re rewriting the rules we were raised with and reclaiming peace as our default setting. This pour is for the soft-spoken leaders, the boundary-builders, and the ones healing out loud.Because unlearning isn’t just inner child work—it’s legacy work. ✨ Reflection Prompt:“What belief have I outgrown—and what new truth am I ready to live by?” 🎙️ Listen now on Spotify + Apple Podcasts🛍️ Grab your healing-coded planner This Might Help, Idk—available now on Amazon. 🌿 Explore more tools at www.teatimewithtoniya.com #HealingPodcast #MindsetReset #EmotionalHealingJourney #SelfGrowthTools #EmotionalIntelligence

    50 min

  8. 10/14/2025

    Spilling the Tea on Self-Sabotage: When You're the Problem & The Fix

    You’re not broken.You’re just repeating patterns that once felt like protection.In this episode, we pours truth into the tender places—unpacking self-sabotage, emotional avoidance, and the quiet ways we betray ourselves while chasing clarity. If you’ve ever asked, “Why do I keep getting in my own way?”This pour is for you. We’re naming the sabotage.We’re reclaiming the softness.And we’re reminding you: you are both the wound and the medicine. 🎙️ Listen now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts🧡 Rate, review, and vote in the episode poll to shape future pours🛍️ Shop healing-centered products at www.teatimewithtoniya.com

    49 min

  9. 09/30/2025

    Spilling the Tea on Boundaries: Saying 'No' without the Side Eye

    Today we’re talking boundaries—aka the art of disappointing people gracefully.I used to think “no” was rude. Now I know “yes” can be self-abandonment in disguise. In this episode, I’m unpacking the guilt, the grace, and the growth. From overextending to overexplaining, I’m spilling my own tea on the boundary lessons I learned the hard way. Because saying “no” is how I say “yes” to myself.Sip slow. This one’s tender and true. #SipSeason ❤️. If something in this episode echoed inside you… If it stirred a memory, a mood, or a truth you’ve been carrying quietly—don’t let it fade. Visit ⁠⁠https://www.teatimewithtoniya.com/⁠⁠ to explore offerings crafted for your soft resets, your quiet joys, your becoming. The conversation continues there—in scent, in story, in stillness.

    58 min

  10. 09/21/2025

    Spilling the Tea on Friendships in Your 30s: From Daily Texts to Annual Check-Ins

    Some friendships fade. Some evolve. Some just need a Google Calendar invite and a soft place to land. In this episode, I’m sipping through the shifts—how intimacy changes, why silence doesn’t always mean shade, and what it means to love people through their seasons. Time time shifts the rhythm, but not always the meaning.

    53 min

  11. 09/02/2025

    Spilling the Tea on Accountability & Regression: Two Steps Forward, Five Steps Back

    Healing rarely walks a straight line. This episode traces the curves—where clarity flickers, old habits resurface, and grace becomes a daily decision. I’m pouring reflections on red flags I romanticized, patterns I danced with twice, and the quiet art of calling myself in and OUT. It’s a soft reckoning for the ones who bloom, break, and bloom again. Because there’s beauty in the blackslide. And even in the spiral, there’s still progress. Sip slow. The truth is steeped in self reflection. #SipSeason ❤️

    45 min

  12. 08/19/2025

    Spilling the Tea on Life Updates: Chaos, Growth, & Mild Identity Crises - featuring Jarell Jackson

    I moved across the country, signed divorce papers, and found myself somewhere between breakdown and breakthrough. This episode is a love letter to starting over—messy, magical, and mine. If you’ve ever rebuilt your life with shaky hands, a sharp lip, and a playlist that oscillates between gospel and trap music… pull up a chair, it’s #SipSeason. ❤️

    1h 3m
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Spilling the tea as we navigate through this thing called life. Revamped & ready to go. Thank you all so much for joining me on this journey! ❤️

Information

  • Creator
    Toniya Rachelle
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    12
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Toniya Rachelle
  • Show Website
    Tea Time With Toniya