Feeling Fried? Try This Calming Herbal Tea

• #toc_item_0 • [Feeling Fried? Try This Calming Herbal Tea](#toc_item_1) • [Here’s the tea](#toc_item_2) • [California Dreaming: These Beautiful Parks Will Take Your Breath Away](#toc_item_3) • [Check it out](#toc_item_4) • [Little Beach Harvest Is Bringing Indigenous Voices to the Cannabis Conversation](#toc_item_5) • [Learn more](#toc_item_6) • [No One Can Give You a Massage as Well as You Can Give Yourself a Massage](#toc_item_7) • [DIY!](#toc_item_8) • [Sign Up For Streamail](#toc_item_9) • [Get Our Weekly Rundown of Your Next Binge](#toc_item_10) *Header 728x90 [] The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to fluctuate rapidly and impact communities all over the world. If you’re venturing out, triple-check the opening status, entry requirements, and safety protocols for both your destination and home city upon your return. Be safe out there. [] Hello, Friday friends. I always get a little anxious on Friday about whether I still have your attention. I am like a harried schoolmaster, begging for you to listen to my lecture on “Opening Yourself Up to the Wonders of the World Even Though You Don’t Really Feel Like It Because You’re Kinda Burned Out Right Now In Case I Hadn’t Noticed.” Now that you’ve made it to the end of the week, you don’t need me as much. Perhaps some of you see the Thrillist newsletter in your inbox on a Friday and think, “I simply don’t have time for that nonsense anymore.” Sure, on Monday you want what I’m selling, but by Friday, the newsletter is just a quaint correspondence you could take or leave. How wrong you are, though. Friday is when you could most benefit from Thrillist’s expertise and playful joie de vivre (that’s French for “living your life to the fullest, while still observing the CDC guidelines”). Before you pour yourself a shot of Tito’s to quell your anxiety from doomscrolling all week, you could read an article about the best herbal tea to calm your anxiety (and then pour that shot of Tito’s into the herbal tea). Before you bemoan the winter doldrums, you could rediscover the wonders of nature and read an article about the most beautiful and least-visited parks in California. Before you mindlessly take your first toke, you could read about the Shinnecock Indian Nation tribal member who’s at the forefront of bringing ancestral knowledge to the cannabis industry in New York state. And before you fold yourself into the position on the couch that is most certainly giving you back pain, you could learn about the best expert-approved home massage gear on the market. I’m exhausted from typing all that. Now I must go drink some herbal tea (with Tito’s) and do four minutes of a yoga video before deciding to do something else. [Ned Riseley, Senior Copywriter]( [ [( food & drink [] [Feeling Fried? Try This Calming Herbal Tea]( White knuckling the TV remote? Taking everything on Twitter personally? Just catching weird vibes because you’ve been paying attention to the attention economy? You might need the calming touch of a delightful herbal tea to calm you down. Luckily enough, we have a whole article about the best teas to help you take a deep exhale and connect with the present moment. With a steaming cup of Valerian or Lavender or Ashwaganda, you can expertly tune out the person outside your apartment literally putting all of their body weight on the horn of their Mazda sedan. That doesn’t affect you. Just steep and let go! [] [Here’s the tea]( [( [( travel [] [California Dreaming: These Beautiful Parks Will Take Your Breath Away]( The Trona Pinnacles, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Lava Beds National Monument. These are some of the most spectacular and spectacularly underrated natural wonders in California. These are basically the “indie darlings” of the California national parks. Dive into the waters of the “Galapagos of North America,” ski on a volcano, look out for an endangered California condor on your hike, or snap photos of an incredible wildflower bloom in the desert. [] [Check it out]( [( [( cannabis [] [Little Beach Harvest Is Bringing Indigenous Voices to the Cannabis Conversation]( Chenae Bullock is a Shinnecock Indian Nation tribal member and the managing director of Little Beach Harvest, a medical cannabis operation in the Hamptons. Thrillist talked to Bullock about the ways that Little Beach Harvest is helping tribal commerce benefit from the cannabis industry and connecting contemporary “weed culture” with ancestral wisdom and Indigenous history. Learn more about Bullock’s mission as well as LBH, which features a full dispensary and wellness lounge. 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