TEA - TOGETHER, EVEN APART
Live piano, reflection and calm health conversation
Together, Even Apart - TEA Lounge Live
TEA Lounge is a doctor-led space for live piano, reflection and calm, evidence-informed conversations about heart health, diabetes and wellbeing.
A welcoming place to pause, learn, ask broader questions and feel part of a kind international community—whether you are living with a health condition, supporting someone else, working in health or simply interested in wellbeing.
Sunday TEA Lounge
Community-shaped conversation with live piano, reflection and practical questions. Sunday sessions make room for health, feelings, relationships, everyday life and the themes the community most wants to explore.
TEA Diabetes Tues/Thurs
Themed, evidence-informed conversations about diabetes, heart health and wellbeing. Tuesday introduces a focus; Thursday makes room for reflection, feelings, confidence and practical understanding..
TEA for Professionals
Occasional sessions for healthcare professionals and educators, informed by current guidance, practical experience and the realities of supporting people well
TEA Lounge themes are prepared carefully, informed by current guidance and shaped by the questions, experiences and topic suggestions that emerge from the community
CUP: a calm way to check online health claims
C = Claim — What exactly is being promised?
U = Underlying evidence — What reliable evidence supports it?
P = Personal context — Is it safe and relevant for you, your health and any medicines you take?
CUP appears in TEA Lounge conversations when we need a calm, practical way to explore online claims about health, diabetes, weight loss, medicines or heart health.
CUP Method and Box Breathing
Online information should never be used as a reason to stop, start or change prescribed medicines without speaking with your clinician, pharmacist or healthcare team.
Box Breathing
Try our 4-4-4-4 box-breathing track, composed and recorded for TEA, as a gentle pause before or after a conversation.
Breathe in for four, hold for four, breathe out for four, then pause for four—at a pace that feels comfortable. If breath-holding does not feel comfortable, simply slow your breathing and return to your usual natural rhythm.
Prefer not to follow the count? Simply listen to the calming musical rhythm.
The TEA Community
More than 20,800 people follow TEA on TikTok, joining from across the UK and around the world for piano, reflection and calm, evidence-informed conversation..
The TEA Lives Map celebrates the places from which people join us. Each pin represents a connection made through music, learning, conversation or the simple comfort of being present together.
It is a reminder that health, creativity and human connection can travel across borders — and that we can be together, even when we are apart.
TEA on Instagram
Instagram is a home for piano, reflection and gentle health conversation. It is a connected part of TEA Lounge: a place to share music, short reflections, current themes and invitations into our wider community.
Follow @prescribednotes for original piano, thoughtful conversations about heart health, diabetes and wellbeing, and updates on forthcoming TEA Lounge sessions.
TEA Lounge is moderated, stigma-sensitive and welcoming. It offers general education and reflection, not individual medical advice. Please speak with your own clinician, pharmacist or healthcare team about personal symptoms, medicines, test results or treatment decisions.
Selected TEA replays and resource
TEA Lounge takes place live on TikTok. Selected sessions, highlights and useful resources will be added here over time, so that people who cannot join live—including those in different time zones—can revisit key conversations.
The archive is currently being refreshed. Please check back for new replays and selected topic-based resources from recent TEA Lounge sessions.
For the most up-to-date live schedule, current topics and reminders, follow TEA on TikTok and Instagram.
TEA Archive and Catch-up
Voices from the TEA Lounge
COMING SOON
Coming up on TEA
We’re building a series of calm, guideline-aligned diabetes discussions.
Upcoming topics include;
GLP-1s and cardiovascular risk
Kidney protection and SGLT inhibitors
Retinopathy and eye screening myths
Managing diabetes inequalities