T Ching Founder & Contributing Writer
Michelle Rabin is the founder of T Ching. Some years ago, she left New Jersey where she’d been in private practice as a psychologist for 25 years, and moved to Hood River, Oregon with visions of tea in her mind, body, and soul. Her mentors, Robert G. Allen (N.Y. Times best-selling author) and Mark Victor Hanson (Chicken Soup For the Soul) taught her that she is limited only by the limitations she imposes on herself.
It was her vision and drive that were the inspiration for this innovative blog. She was able to see, early on, the direction the tea industry was headed in this country and was drawn to every aspect of it.
A former coca-cola addict, Michelle first discovered green tea as a healthier beverage choice to wean herself off of her coca-cola jones. Her love affair with tea began while studying the traditions of the Japanese and Chinese Tea Ceremonies. But it didn’t end there. As a tea connoisseur herself, Michelle saw the need to educate consumers about tea. Her prediction is that once Americans can make a delicious cup of tea quickly, painlessly, and perfectly, their consumption of tea will significantly increase – bringing it in line with the rest of the world’s enjoyment of tea.
Second only to water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. The profound health benefits associated with tea consumption will have the potential to impact health and wellness in this country unlike anything before it.
Posts by Michelle Rabin
- Drones Support 21st Century Tea Cultivation (2/14/2019)
- Decaf Tea – Au Naturel (1/23/2019)
- Tissanes for Man’s/Woman’s Best Friend (1/14/2019)
- How much would you spend to advertise in the New Yorker Magazine? (1/3/2019)
- Happy New Year One And All (1/1/2019)
- Genetic Mutation Creates A Caffeine Free Green Tea (12/26/2018)
- Top Beverage Picks for 2019 (12/20/2018)
- Tea Museum opens in Manhattan (11/28/2018)
- Thanksgiving Blessings (11/22/2018)
- Lettuce Leaf Tea……..? (11/12/2018)
- A New Breed of Tea Shops Opens in London (10/11/2018)
- Peppermint Tisane – Another Healthy Beverage (9/27/2018)
- Is Our Beloved Tea A “Functional Food”? (9/6/2018)
- Ginger – A Health Wonder (8/22/2018)
- It Ain’t Just For Stomach Distress – The Wonders of Chamomile Tea (7/30/2018)
- Has This Ever Happened To You? (7/3/2018)
- Fermented Probiotic Rich Teas (tissanes) (6/28/2018)
- Zobo Tea (6/26/2018)
- Americans Choose Tea Over Coffee for the Health Benefits (6/6/2018)
- Tea’s Role in Shaping Health Conscious Americans (5/29/2018)
- The Importance Of Teapot Design (5/24/2018)
- Tea in Spain (5/16/2018)
- Summer Tisanes To Cool The Body (5/8/2018)
- Where is Whole Leaf Tea? (3/22/2018)
- Does drinking hot tea cause cancer? (2/13/2018)
- Tea And Caffeine for Newbies (2/7/2018)
- Tea and Kids – Parents and Grandparents – Listen Up (1/8/2018)
- Happy 2018 (1/2/2018)
- HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM T CHING (12/25/2017)
- International Tea Day – December 15th, 2017 (12/11/2017)
- Thanksgiving Blessings from T Ching (11/23/2017)
- No Detectable Arsenic! (10/9/2017)
- Marijuana Tea – Is it good for you? (10/2/2017)
- Follow Up On Arsenic Testing (9/26/2017)
- Who has the best tea thermos? (9/14/2017)
- Heavy Metal Poisoning and Tea? (9/4/2017)
- Calling All Tea Loving Entrepreneurs (8/21/2017)
- New Ice Tea offering Without Sugar…..but….. (8/18/2017)
- What’s The First Tea Innovation in Thousands of Years? (8/9/2017)
- The Tea Explorer (8/1/2017)
- Green tea, skin health, and the sun (7/31/2017)
- Honoring the 4th of July (7/4/2017)
- Plant That Teabag! (6/29/2017)
- Screw Cancer! (6/22/2017)
- Tea And Alzheimer’s Disease- Great News (6/6/2017)
- Liverpool is the Tea Drinking Capital in the U.K. (5/3/2017)
- Easter rituals and TEA…..Why not? (4/14/2017)
- Artisanal home grown tea – made in the U.S.A. (4/13/2017)
- Buyer Beware – Investigate your teas! (3/16/2017)
- Who are Millennials and are they becoming tea drinkers? (2/6/2017)
- The English Tradition of Afternoon Tea (1/12/2017)
- Let’s Look at Our Blessings (1/2/2017)
- Carve Out a Slice of Time to Relax During This Hectic Holiday Season (12/23/2016)
- Really, World Tea News? Shame on you! (12/7/2016)
- Thanksgiving Blessings (11/24/2016)
- Better Tea May be Going Mainstream; Have a Cup At Dunkin’ donuts (11/22/2016)
- When Disease Brings Ease with Herbal Teas: A Wild Leaf Teas Review (10/18/2016)
- Is Tea A Diuretic? Or Not? (9/19/2016)
- WARNING – Always Read the Ingredients Label (9/4/2016)
- Nanoparticles in Green Tea are Super Agents! (8/15/2016)
- Brew, Drink, Repeat (8/8/2016)
- Chocolate Tea – Am I in heaven? (7/26/2016)
- CasaWare Tilt & Drip: An Exceptional New Tea Infusing Mug (7/11/2016)
- T Ching named Best Tea Blog of 2016 (6/16/2016)
- Chai Tea – Healthy Beverage or Guilty Pleasure? (5/31/2016)
- Whitepaper from World Tea Expo chock full of information (5/25/2016)
- We Are Finalists! (5/6/2016)
- Another Tea Shop Bites the Dust (5/4/2016)
- Magical Tea Houses (4/18/2016)
- Is it Safe to Drink Green Tea from Japan? (3/31/2016)
- Tea Drinking Linked to Better Heart Health………Finally! (3/14/2016)
- Weight Loss and Green Tea – It Appears to be True (1/6/2016)
- Happy, Happy New Year One and All! (12/31/2015)
- Merry Christmas (12/25/2015)
- Dutch Confirmation on the Health Benefits of Tea (11/25/2015)
- Review: Action Tea (10/15/2015)
- Lipton Missed the Boat (9/30/2015)
- Starbucks and Deforestation…? (8/21/2015)
- Artisan Glass Teaware from Rochester Glassworks – Part 2 (7/30/2015)
- Artisan Glass Teaware from Rochester Glassworks – Part 1 (7/23/2015)
- Is Tea Going Mainstream? …..And Organic No Less? (6/12/2015)
- Youth choose TEA (5/12/2015)
- Flashback: the ritual of tea on holiday (4/17/2015)
- The memorial service for Steven Smith (4/6/2015)
- He will be missed (3/26/2015)
- Let your voice be heard (3/16/2015)
- Turkish Delight (2/26/2015)
- Tea is a rising star (2/12/2015)
- Innovative water heater for single serve (1/22/2015)
- The Amazing Bonavita (1/12/2015)
- My tea flower (12/2/2014)
- What would Jesus, Moses, Allah, and Buddha say? (11/28/2014)
- Green tea assisting chemotherapy in fighting cancer. (11/4/2014)
- Caffeine-free tea? Treasure or nightmare? (10/13/2014)
- Innovative tea space (9/22/2014)
- Pesticides? Not in my tea! (8/28/2014)
- A tea review – Gokujo Hojicha (8/18/2014)
- Irresponsible tea “news” (8/5/2014)
- My favorite teahouse (7/16/2014)
- To fund or not to fund, that is the question (7/10/2014)
- Form meets function – A tea canister (6/23/2014)
- A Delicious Cup of Matcha (6/10/2014)
- Master Davey and The Magic Tea House – Book Review (5/13/2014)
- I vote YEA (4/7/2014)
- Tea clutches – another tea accessory (3/24/2014)
- The Grenada tea scene (3/3/2014)
- A Bright Future for Tea (2/11/2014)
- They can’t keep T Ching down! (1/29/2014)
- Kids and tea? You bet! (1/3/2014)
- The proof keeps piling up (12/11/2013)
- Wulong, the treasure of Taiwan (10/31/2013)
- Cease and desist . . . please! (10/3/2013)
- Change a life for 5 cents (9/26/2013)
- Can we help tea pickers around the globe have a “living wage”? (9/17/2013)
- W+3T=the perfect cup of tea (8/23/2013)
- Have some pesticides in your tea…….? (7/24/2013)
- Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday (6/28/2013)
- The importance of the green in green tea (6/6/2013)
- Whimsical tea bag holder (5/15/2013)
- Taking tea as ritual (4/15/2013)
- Innovative tea bag with a wonderful traveling tea tin (3/25/2013)
- An old friend gets a new purpose (2/25/2013)
- A contemporary shift in matcha (1/24/2013)
- Blessings for the new year (12/31/2012)
- Afternoon tea (11/29/2012)
- The mighty Camellia sinensis (11/5/2012)
- A somewhat reluctant taster (10/3/2012)
- Will global warming affect the tea industry? (9/10/2012)
- Tweet for tea (7/20/2012)
- Tea: The Magazine (5/4/2012)
- And you thought smoking tea was a joke! (4/5/2012)
- Spirituali-tea: The mind / body connection (3/7/2012)
- HELPS herbal teas for what ails you (2/8/2012)
- Is your biodegradable tea bag really biodegradable? I think not. (4/21/2011)
- tea and sexual pleasures (8/12/2010)
- “Wellness” food for 2009 (1/14/2009)