Some rituals don’t announce themselves as important until you imagine them ending.

In this quiet, intimate episode, Dr. Gwen Jung reflects on a lifelong ritual of tea shared with her mother—a practice rooted in habit, memory, and a kind of love that doesn’t need language. Through the simple act of boiling water and warming cups, she explores caregiving, grief, and the fear of a future she knows how to prepare for clinically, but not emotionally.

“Mother’s Tea” is not a story about loss. It’s about staying—at the table, in the moment, with the people who made us—while we still can.

A meditation on routine, immigrant parenthood, and the tenderness hidden inside ordinary mornings.