Intro to Expansion

In this episode, we explore the value and approachability of small steps on the way to who we are. We examine the power and enormity of avalanches and what they teach us about small starts and big breaks.

We also cover the importance of patience and how if we’re not careful, we can miss our lives rushing to a destination we never chose and don’t want to arrive at.

Given everything we’ve covered and the height of our aims, patience is the virtue that will help us persist until the finish.

Give this episode a listen before you begin or during your climb to the top.

Melvyn 👣

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This episode is an announcement episode for the month of June. In it, I provide an Astrological update and recommendation, comment on Reconstruction, Wellspring, and make a very special announcement.

Let me holla at ya!

Melvyn 🌈

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In this episode, we discuss how focusing our affirmations more on who we want to be, that is, from within, can make them more effective and expedite our arrival at who we want to be.

We discuss how our current way of affirming is like furnishing a barn and what we can learn from train rides to certain destinations. This is a fun, simple episode that can make a massive impact.

Give it a listen.

Melvyn 🗣️

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In this episode, we cover the importance of being beyond ceaseless doing and how we can get better at starting things that have the potential to grow beyond our current imagination.

This first content episode in the Wellspring stage put to use what we’ve covered in previous stages as well as sets us up for the rest of Wellspring.

Give it a listen and plan your next artful start.

Melvyn 👨🏿‍🎨

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Plentiful. Embodied. Resourced from the deep within.

This audio commentary episode is the most fun I’ve had yet. In this edition, I have collected and annotated songs that speak to our power, our dreams, and the redemptive work before us to do. I also, unsuspectingly, speak a lot about the value and power of relationships as we move forward and create a new world.

As I have emerged from the dark and begun reconstruction myself, this Wellspring Commentary is a good time. You can think of this one as me essentially saying: To me, my millennials.

So much love, heart, and laughter in this one.

Melvyn 🫶🏿

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In this short Musing episode, I share from my heart a summons to all those who have had to conceal, abandon, and disown parts of who you are.

Happy Pride!

Melvyn 🌈

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In this deeply personal episode, I narrate the journey to my coming out and the dark, rocky terrain I had to navigate to make it to the other side. I think this episode has got a bit for everybody. So let me tell it in my own words the price I had to pay to live in the light.

In this one, we cover the Second Adolescence queer people typically have to live through, why our identities (and your, too) are so important, and what the treatment of queer youth means for the family system.

Let my life be an example of how even the darkest moments can produce the most brilliant life.

Dive in.

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Wellspring Playlist Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/v-wellspring/pl.u-aZb00D7tPyBdPW

Wellspring Playlist Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Cw3rgp0uVMUyAe6e9ikQf?si=bKjLHJ6pSxOEEiJC7cSsBA&pi=u-jcAD3G3zQq-i

Melvyn ⛲️

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In this Musing episode, I discuss the near-daily opportunity we get to practice receiving and experiencing the things we most desire.

In it, I also share a few additional ways we’ve been given indicators of where we’re headed as well as provide a playful analogy of how we delay our greatest experiences.

Give it a listen!

Melvyn 🚿

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In this episode, I detail through my experience growing and being active in church and various religious groups, how subtle patterns of abuse, hate, and control have infiltrated and thrived in Christian churches. I highlight the numerous ways this happens, who it often happens to, and what we might do to get our personal Christian faith back on track so we may see God.

Honorable mention to the ways Queer people are kept close so they can receive intimate spiritual harm while being exploited.

Buckle up, this one is a doozy, but it’s got a whooole lot of heart. All else is folly.

Melvyn ⛪

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In this Musing, I share what we can learn from bell towers about consistency, service, and the beauty of our souls. Please receive this encouragement to not only begin again but at a pace you actually like.

Give it a listen.

Melvyn 🔔

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