Nuance Tea

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Theme song is Jam Session by Sherricka Yvette. Find her music on Spotify & follow her on IG @sherrickayvette.

In our roundup conversation, we catch up on pop culture and anything new to highlight (5:37), Brittany talks about High on the Hog on Netflix, and both Aurelia & Brittany connect over watching the premiere of In the Heights, and talk about reviews of the show as well as the controversy around colorism and representation (this conversation was recorded before LMM issued an apologize).

Our main conversation on the enneagram is a snapshot of Aureilia’s & Brittany’s personality type which are numbers 6 & 9, respectively (12:08). We break down the nine number system of the ancient personality typing system, how we’ve grown through knowing the enneagram, and how it’s helped us empathize with others more. Plus, we reference The Road Back to You and The Enneagram Institute as resources for continued learning and ways to know your enneagram number.

In this week’s communiTEA prompt we discuss the mantra: nuance is the tea! (41:45) Shoutout to Kristen & Larry for responding to our prompt, “in one word describe what nuance means to you.” They answered respectively with vulnerability & freedom, and we couldn’t agree more.

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Theme song is Jam Session by Sherricka Yvette. Find her music on Spotify & follow her on IG @sherrickayvette.

In our essentials for the week we name how we’re feeling and discuss how we work through anxiety. Brittany is practicing self-advocacy, and Aurelia is surrendering to her timeline and finding ways to stay in a creative headspace (inspired by Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic to listen to your creative nudges).

Before jumping into our main conversation about our connection to social media, we share our mantra: “social media can inform my reality without becoming my reality.” Aurelia and Brittany give personal responses to the prompt on ways social media has been useful and ways we’ve needed to set boundaries with it.

We discuss curating a healthy social media space and when we’ve noticed it’s best to disengage. Plus, we talk about wokeness and cancel culture in the current age of social media.

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Theme song is Jam Session by Sherricka Yvette. Find her music on Spotify & follow her on IG @sherrickayvette.

To kickstart our roundup conversation (0:40), we’re talking about our favorite pop culture topics of the week. Brittany is watching The Nevers, Legendary & Pose. Aurelia is reading Untamed by Glennon Doyle, which inspired her to lean into ease & being her full self as she writes her book, A Brown Girl’s Epiphany.

In the essentials (6:52), we name the ways we’re caring for ourselves before jumping into our main conversation. As we move into naming our sun, moon, and rising signs, we recognize the ways we connect to astrology now and what we thought or knew about it growing up (13:36). We speak about the rhythm of the lunar cycle and how Brittany has created full moon blessings on her patreon that help us tap into its power, even more.

Brittany and Aurelia share each other’s natal chart and invite listeners to read their chart too by going to cafeastrology.com or costarastrology.com.

In this week’s shoutouts we discuss the mantra: give yourself permission (40:24). CommuniTEA question: what do you need to give yourself permission to do today or this week? We highlight Joyce’s response, “I give myself permission to be angry, knowing it is meant for protection of myself and those I love...”; and Naomi said “today I give myself permission to not cook dinner and order food delivery...and nap while my kids watch a show.”

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Theme song is Jam Session by Sherricka Yvette. Find her music on Spotify & follow her on IG @sherrickayvette.

Listen to Nuance Tea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify or your favorite podcast platform!

Theme song by Sherricka Yvette, Jam Session

• Find her music on Spotify
  
• Follow her on IG @sherrickayvette
  

Show Intro (0:25)

The Essentials (1:40)

• Brittany is grounding herself in the garden & watching mindless TV
  
• Aurelia is focusing on spiritual practice & centering through prayer
  

Mantra (8:22)

• Breathe & proceed.
  
  • Maya: “There’s something about seeing the word breathe that makes you want to surrender & lean into it…”
    
• Embrace self-compassion.
  
  • Larry: “I can show myself compassion by smiling at all the beautiful ways I fall short of the person I tell myself I should be…”
    

Ritual Conversation (15:54)

• The quotidian connection (Influenced by Kathleen Norris’ book)
  
• Distinction between one-time & continual ritual moments
  
• Limitless ways to think about ritual in your own life
  

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Listen to Nuance Tea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify or your favorite podcast platform!

Listen to Nuance Tea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify or your favorite podcast platform!

• Theme song by Sherricka Yvette, Jam Session
  
  • Find her music on Spotify
    
  • Follow her on IG @sherrickayvette
    

Show Intro (0:17)

The Essentials (1:07)

• Brittany started her ancestral altar
  
• Time is Aurelia’s superpower
  

Mantra: Name your power (14:00)

• “Being comfortable with mystery and ambiguity” -Jonathan
  
• “Making decisions and going for it without overthinking.” -Brandie
  

Grounding Conversation (19:20)

• Grounding through gardening, earth connection & an abundance of ways
  
• “Grow your own medicine” course
  
• Coming back to ourselves through grounding
  

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Listen to Nuance Tea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify or your favorite podcast platform!

• Theme song by Sherricka Yvette, Jam Session
  
  • Find her music on Spotify
    
  • Follow her on IG @sherrickayvette
    

Show Intro (0:18)

The Roundup (0:35)

• Favorite moments on the Grammys
  
• Holding space for the lives lost in the recent mass shootings
  
• Brittany’s recent Advocate’s Prayer published in the Christian Citizen, “Standing in Solidarity with the Asian American community”
  

The Essentials (8:11)

• Brittany is going with the flow
  
• More ways to support Nuance Tea, coming soon!
  
• Aurelia’s favorite song of all time, Jhene Aiko’s “Love”
  

Inner Child conversation (12:45)

• The wisdom of our inner child
  
• Intuitive writing through The Aura House
  
• Send love to your child self
  
• The gift of vulnerability
  

Mantra: Liberate Little You (33:16)

• Hillary: Care less about what other people think or want for you
  
• Matthew: “You will find your people”
  
• Alicia: “There is nothing wrong with you, you are perfect as you are”
  
• Bethany: “It gets better, you are pretty great the way God made you”
  

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Listen to Nuance Tea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify or your favorite podcast platform!

• Theme song by Sherricka Yvette, Jam Session
  
  • Find her music on Spotify
    
  • Follow her on IG @sherrickayvette
    
• Show Intro (0:14)
  
• The Roundup (0:40)
  
  • We talk pop culture: Megan Markle, Prince Harry, and more
    
• Women’s History Month (12:01)
  
  • Leaning into liberation and freedom
    
  • The Anita Posch Show
    
  • Nigerian Feminist Coalition
    
  • Religious liberty resource: BJC
    
• Trauma Conversation (19:02)
  
  • Healing, scarcity mindset, & living in abundance
    
  • Overcoming bigger traumas
    
• Mantra: Remember who you are (42:05)
  
  • CommuniTEA prompt: I am most myself when ______.
    
    • Drew: Lost in the moment and not overthinking
      
    • Torrey: Being truly heard and safe with expressing my thoughts
      
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Listen to Nuance Tea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify or your favorite podcast platform!

• Theme song by Sherricka Yvette, Jam Session
  
  • Find her music on Spotify
    
  • Follow her on IG @sherrickayvette
    
• Show Intro (0:30)
  

The Essentials (1:11)

• Jidenna! (2:22)
  
• Voices of the Ancestors (5:22)
  

Mantra: love heals (8:13)

• CommuniTEA question: how is love healing you in this season?
  
  • “I have not only learned to love myself authentically knowing that I did the best I could with the resources I had at the time…” -Forrest Aldridge
    
  • “Becoming a mom has added depth to my perception of love…” -Kendra Shaw
    
  • “Love and support of family and friends has been very healing.” -Rachel Jackson
    

Ancestral healing (14:23)

• Aurelia speaks on the connection to ancestors through her name
  
• Brittany speaks on ancestral connection through decolonial Christianity and family history
  
• Cross-cultural perspectives on ancestors and death
  
• Engaging ancestral connection as resistance
  
• Wild Kuan Yin oracle deck & ancestral guardians of light (35:38)
  

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Show Notes:

Theme song by Sherricka Yvette, Jam Session

• Find her music on Spotify
  
• Follow her on IG @sherrickayvette
  

Show Intro (0:30)

The Essentials (1:00)

• Woke Nation YouTube
  
• Bullet journal & creative visualization
  
• Genersity with self
  

Mantra: flow, not force (7:51)

• CommuniTEA question: what practices help you tune into your intuition & flow?
  
  • Leaning into your kids' rhythm. -Brandie Brown
    
  • “Releasing toxic inner expectations that cause anxiety and create doubt.” -J.U.Jones
    
  • “Finding the things I can be disciplined in.” -Jana Munoz
    
  • Collective response: nature & process
    

How Aurelia & Brittany met? (20:01)

• Overseas in London
  
• Divine alignment
  
• Spoken word collaboration
  

Birthing & growing Nuance Tea (27:11)

• Deepened conversations
  
• Telling our truth
  

Redefining what it means to be clergy (33:45)

• Public witness & advocacy
  
• Multi-vocational
  
• Critiquing the church
  
• Ordination as a movement through
  

Introduction to energy work (39:21)

• In tune with your energy body
  
• Shoutout to The Friend Zone & Maryam Hasnaa
  
• Accessing joy
  
• Remember who you are
  

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Show Notes:

Theme song by Sherricka Yvette, Jam Session

• Find her music on Spotify
  
• Follow her on IG @sherrickayvette
  

Show Intro (0:30)

The Essentials (1:26)

• Rooted Apothecary, Rose Fur heart chakra candle (@rootedapothecary on Insta)
  
• Song: Jazmine Sullivan, Lost One (live)
  
• Energy course: MaryamHasnaa.com (Home frequency 2.0)
  

Highs and Lows of 2020 (8:16)

• Aurelia: Finding community and belonging among women of color, learning to juggle the emotional load of a sacred community during the pandemic
  
• Brittany: buying her first home and the highs and lows of doing so, ordination as a form of connection to ancestors
  

Mantra leads to movement (18:02)

• CommunitTEA question: What’s your favorite mantra?
  
  • “Return to Sender.” -Rev. Kyndall Rothaus
    
  • “There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it is enough.” -Fr. Richard Rohr via Michael Evans
    
• Aurelia’s 2021 mantra: “I am expanded.”
  
• Brittany’s 2021 mantra: “To be unafraid to be seen, and to take up all of my space.”

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