Rest! And drink lots of tea!

I've been out sick the last few days and I notice I'm not hearing the usual advice: rest and drink lots of tea. Rest, yes, but no one reminds me of the other because since I stopped drinking coffee (more than a month ago!), I'm down to two drinks—water and tea, that's it. I don't drink juice, I don't touch soda. I don't drink anything that comes with a warning label. My biggest vice these days is a hot chocolate or a chai (made with soy—I'm also trying to live kinder, like my sweet friends over at The Kind Life), but in my sick haze, I wondered if I've been depriving myself. I started craving the cure-all of my childhood, Top Ramen and a Coke, so I removed my sick self from the care of good Doctors Pekoe and Smokey and their amazing patented Crush Therapy long enough to get to the kitchen and open this drawer:

*This is not an ad for Yogi Tea.

There are 19 more boxes of tea on my shelves, there are three more boxes at the office (that's just on my desk!), and this picture doesn't even show the entire drawer! Deprived? No way. I've actually expanded my palate (Tahitian Vanilla! Goji Berry! Lemon Ginger!). The occasional galloping office flu aside, I've never felt better. My mind might want the comfort food of my youth, a bowl of MSG and a glass of sugar. My body does not.

I think this is on my mind now because I'm sick and because I know, for the first time, what it feels like to be well. In the last year I've made some serious changes in service of my health because I've come (slowly, sometimes kicking and screaming) to the realization that this is the body I'm going to be in for the rest of my life. I live inside of it.  I spent my wild youth feeding it, oh, mainly Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, but today I try to think about what I can do for it. Last week I cut out black teas (except for that occasional Chai—a girl's gotta live) and I just wish I'd done all of this sooner!

You can read more about this in my fifth book, How I Started Treating My Body Like a Temple and Turned into a Goddess, forthcoming from some very lucky publisher in, let's say, 2015 and I'll get off my all-natural organic soapbox now.  So, what about you? Lindsey's got her Thunder, Candace has her expertise (experteas!), and I have just about every of flavor of Yogi out there. What are you drinking? What are your old-school home remedies and new favorites when you catch a bug? How are you loving your temple today?