About the author

Trista Signe Ainsworth is a writer, pastry chef, video creator, wife, and mother. She loves to find joy and lessons in her everyday life and share them through her writing. She writes weekly on Medium in her publication Optimism and Light and her Substack newsletter Letters From Your Inner Being. She also enjoys creating tea-pairing videos on her YouTube channel, Zerocasualteas.

She works three days a week as a pastry chef at Skywater Tea House in Hillsboro, Oregon, and enjoys baking with sourdough at home. Her other loves in life include going on local food adventures with her husband and son, and world travel. Her outlook on life is one of optimism and joy. She wishes every human being knows they matter and have gifts to share with the world.