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The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

1332: Tea by Leila Chatti

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

American Public Media

Arts, Performing Arts

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Today’s poem is Tea by Leila Chatti.


The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “Maybe the ultimate self care is learning to give yourself the respect, the tenderness, and the grace you extend to others. To love yourself the way you love others.”


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1:05.3

I'm Maggie Smith and this is the slowdown.

1:19.5

Thank you. and this is the slowdown. Self-care as a buzzword is so overused, it's nearly lost its meaning.

1:26.3

I know it looks like different things to different people,

1:29.3

a massage, a yoga class, an afternoon off work to do something fun.

1:34.3

But as the idea pops up again and again,

1:38.3

I try to let go of those associations and focus on the words themselves, self, care. It's how we take care of ourselves,

1:49.8

especially when life feels particularly stressful and challenging. Maybe the ultimate self-care

1:58.6

is learning to give yourself the respect, the tenderness,

2:02.6

and the grace you extend to others, to love yourself, the way you love others.

2:11.3

Today's poem made me think about self-care in a new way. It shows us how self-directed kindness can be a sacred

2:21.6

ritual like prayer. Tea by Leila Shetty. Five times a day I make tea. I do this because I like the warmth in my hands, like the feeling of self-directed

2:40.0

kindness. I'm not used to it, warmth and kindness both. So I create my own when I can.

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