An exhaustive guide to my experience with therapy and how you can get started. In this audio, I cover costs, insurance, what makes a great therapist, when it may be time to change therapists, and resources to get you started.

Love Letter Podcast is Back!

🚨 All episodes are available NOW here on Substack and on Apple Podcasts! 🎙️

In addition to the episodes listed in detail in this audio, I’ve also included supplemental resources to support your reconnecting and falling back in love with yourself.

Melvyn 🤟🏿

Thank you for reading and being here. If you know someone who would benefit from what I’ve said here, please feel free to share.

Join me, Melvyn Rustin, a Black, Queer, Southern Millennial as I show how self-reflection and writing love letters to various parts of yourself can help you reclaim your most loving, creative self.

In this podcast, I cover topics such as Psychology, Neurology, Sociology, Child Development, Astrology and more to help us better understand our life experience so we can live more true to who we are.

Editor's Note:Love Letter Podcast broadcasted from August to September 2022. This short series became the foundation for Mel’s Substack, where the tools and message of this same podcast continue.

Please visit Mel’s Substack to see how this seedling has bloomed.

Melvynrustin.substack.com

In this episode, we cover how we can create space within ourselves and our lives to allow who we are, or would most enjoy being, to emerge through gentle curiosity. I highlight how most of our goals and intended milestones are sought to give us a feeling that we can begin accessing right now.

I invite us to begin curiously questioning all the aspects of our lives through: intropsection, reflection, and integration activities. I recommend ways to tailor your environment to better support your unfolding.

I also share how finally pursuing a long-held interest of playing the harp, not only brought up a ton of stuff to see, but how it’s becoming an integral part of my creation process.

Only you can find and chart the path back to your essential self and your most aligned life and in this episode I aim to give you tools to start seeing the clues that lead you to that path.

Enjoy!

Thanks for listening! For more, please subscribe to Mel’s Substack!

Join Melvin Rustin on this episode where we examine how our childhood environments have set us up to have what we currently have and how our essential, creative selves actually know the way to what we want. We’ve just got to clear away the debris that gets in the way.

In this episode, I aim to expand your view of yourself and what you’re capable of and how easy being “you” is supposed to be through a discussion of brain science, developmental psychology, and present-day society.

Assignment: This week I want you to write or dictate a letter to yourself. I want you to spend a moment reflecting on your 7 year old self, and write You already have the direction you need for the turbulent times we’re experiencing and going into. You are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Don’t miss you.

Enjoy!

Thanks for listening! For more, please subscribe to Mel’s Substack below free!

In this Post Statement episode, we discuss how we can use metaphysical tools such as Astrology, Numerology, and other personal details to continue framing and delving into OUR lives. Don't sleep! I make some pretty dope real-life connections in this one. Before we dive into brains, nervous systems, and relationships, let's get an intergalactic perspective on who we are.

The tools I share are:

* Astrology

* Numerology

* Your creative projects

* Any professional or personal assessments you’ve taken

* Childhood interests

I also share the internal urgings that led to me quitting my job and what began happening after I did.

* For your “Big three” or Astrology Natal Chart (FREE) - Click Here

* For your Life Path Number (FREE) - Click Here

* For the StrengthsFinder Assessment (PAID) - Click Here

Enjoy!

Thanks for listening! For more, please subscribe to Mel’s Substack free!

In this Post Statement episode, Melvyn expounds on the idea that you “already know the way.” I invite you to use your entire life as a dashboard and treat repeating patterns or themes as a sign.

I highlight how things like superlatives, childhood interests, and things people regularly repeat to you about you are guideposts to things you might enjoy. In this episode, I also ask a number of questions to help you remember aspects of your early self.

Let everything in your experience be an invitation to live a more expansive life.

Enjoy!

Thanks for listening! For more, please subscribe to Mel’s Substack free!

In this episode, I discuss how I intend to adjust the timeline of episode releases and additionally how the systems we exist with in: capitalism, corporate america, and often unhealed families all conspire to keep us stuck.

[Editor’s Note: This episode signaled a pivot in my approach to this podcast and I think we can all learn from this that sometimes what we intend when we set out on a journey isn’t sustainable and the courage we exemplify to pivot can restore us and inspire others.]

Thanks for listening! For more, please subscribe to Mel’s Substack free!

In this truly vulnerable episode, I discuss a break that existed between this and the previous episode during the original broadcast. I discuss how Virgil Abloh teaches us to honor our own paths and to use everything. Additionally, I discuss how fear hindered me from showing up most boldly and how we can plan for this.

Thanks for listening! For more, please subscribe to Mel’s Substack free!

Join me, Melvyn Rustin, a Black, Queer, Southern Millennial as I show how self-reflection and writing love letters to various parts of yourself can help you reclaim your most loving, creative self.

Before we begin this journey of a million letters, let's get more acquainted with me your host, the science of writing, and the tools you'll need on this loving odyssey back to yourself.

For this journey, you’ll need:

* Curiosity

* Notebook, notetaking app, or voice memos app

* Pen, pencil, quill

* Intentions for yourself for this journey

Enjoy!

Thanks for listening! For more, please subscribe to Mel’s Substack free!