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/

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

Welcome back to the Tea Time Podcast. After a long hiatus, Sharissa Bradley returns to share where she's been, why the podcast is coming back now, and what's next. This episode introduces a new series centered around revisiting Journey Back to Health — not as a finished story, but as a living process.

Sharissa opens up about experiencing months of severe nausea, weight loss, muscle decline, and brain fog, and how these symptoms led her to confront long-standing patterns of disordered eating rooted in childhood poverty and food insecurity. Through journaling and reflection, she realized her body had been trained to survive on adrenaline instead of hunger cues.

This series will follow Sharissa as she works through each chapter of her book in real time — not as medical advice, but as shared experience. Each week, she'll revisit one chapter and apply it to her current healing journey, inviting listeners to do the same alongside her.

You can participate completely for free by listening to the book-reading episodes from earlier seasons and downloading the workbook.

Timestamps

• 00:00 – Welcome back & returning to the podcast
• 01:00 – Why the podcast paused & authenticity
• 02:00 – Health symptoms and ongoing nausea
• 04:00 – Weight loss, muscle decline, and brain fog
• 06:00 – Childhood poverty and food insecurity
• 08:00 – Disordered eating and loss of hunger cues
• 09:30 – Understanding adrenaline vs. calorie-driven energy
• 10:30 – Revisiting Journey Back to Health as a program
• 12:00 – How the weekly chapter series will work
• 13:00 – Joining the community and working the workbook
• 15:00 – Gratitude and what's ahead

Links & Resources

• Join the Tea Time Podcast Facebook Group:
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2034745363989749/
• Download the Journey Back to Health Workbook (free):
  https://sharissabradley.com/extras
• Connect on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sharissabradley.author/
• Watch this on youtube: https://youtu.be/ZOSgJAp5c0w
• Listen to the book for free: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvNF2YYAhvtPUrPCeIyNIqyMTv6dF96r9

Abraham Maslow created the structure of the heirarchy of needs. The topic of this episode is the base of Maslow's pyramid: meeting physiological needs. I give my take on what it means to meet those needs and how I believe this is the way to turn things around!

Welcome to another episode of the Messy Middle series. This episode features my husband Jon and what he believes constitutes the messy middle. I think you will suprised by his definition. The messy middle is an analogy derived from the part of the caterpillar journey where everything turns into mush. I believe it is important to honor the middle phase. Especially now when before and after's are so popular but no one really gets the opportunity to showcase the part where everything is in the mess...or what I like to call the "messy middle". Thank you for being here. Thank you for taking the time to listen.

If you want to know more about me please check out my website. I am most active on my instagram channel.

https://www.instagram.com/sharissabradley.author/

https://sharissabradley.com/

Welcome to the first interview in the messy middle series. This episode features my freind Hannah. I believe the messy middle is the part of our lives that needs to be showcased the absolute most. Yet we are often only exposed to the begining and the end. The middle is where the real magic of transformation exists. It has become a passion of mine to show the middle. On this episode my dear friend Hannah shares her version of the middle. Thank you for being here and thank you for taking the time to listen.

If you want to know more about me please check out my website. I am most active on my instagram channel.

https://www.instagram.com/sharissabradley.author/

https://sharissabradley.com/

Welcome to episode 56. I am starting a new series called "The Messy Middle" showcasing the stories from my peers facing their messy middle moments before everything feels clear again. It is too often that we only get to see the tip of the iceburg...the before and after all shiny and new. I feel like it is important to show the part where everything starts to break down before it can be built up new again. This series is my attempt to shine a light on the messy parts that make us who we are.

Thank you for being here and thank you for taking the time to listen.

If you want to know more about me please check out my website. I am most active on my instagram channel.

https://www.instagram.com/sharissabradley.author/

https://sharissabradley.com/

Welcome to episode 55! Thank you for being here. This episode is all about learning to play as an adult, coming from a household that did not value play time or hobby time. I am learning these things now and it is not without hardship. All too often I heard that playing or learning a new hobby would be a waste of my time. When I reached a point in my life where I had time to play I had no idea what to do. This episode is all about giving permission to learn to play and enjoy the time I get.

Thank you for being here and thank you for taking the time to listen.

If you want to know more about me please check out my website. I am most active on my instagram channel.

https://www.instagram.com/sharissabradley.author/

https://sharissabradley.com/