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Monday Morning Muse
by Hannah Lynn Mell
Musical theater educator, interfaith chaplain & former crisis worker Hannah shares the mic with guests interested in health, creative expression, narrative therapy, and long term resilience. mondaymorningmuse.substack.com
Episodes
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wellbeing, resource, balance & healing for creatives
* What practices and systems support long term wellbeing for empathic creatives in their journeys? * How do individuals define and share resources? * When/how does an individual choose rest and renewal? Is it possible for organizations to promote balance for highly sensitive people, and what…
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misdiagnosis or miracle?
Jean McIntire put me in front of a microphone at the age of four and 13 years later launched me as a music educator by trusting me to lead her dynamic Christian children’s choir God’s Kids in Havertown, Pennsylvania. In this conversation, Jean and I sound off on the health benefits of singing…
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human enough to renew
Jazmin is a force of love & cultural change whose spiritual values are lived, not just spoken. From her home in San Diego, she works with women through storytelling, trainings, and integrative wellness coaching. Her willingness to share from her soul is what drew me to her when we met in 2022....
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Creative in Community: What does courage look like for us now?
Thank you Laura K Sather Lemunyete, Rob Sayre-Wait What? & others for tuning into my live video with Danika! Join me for my next live video - a full moon releasing ritual - Monday, October 26th, at 7:00 PM ET. Come ready to breathe and let go … if you’d like to let go of shame, consider the…
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patience takes practice
“Once I get out of the water, for me the race is over.” Michael Weintraub experienced years of panic attacks when he swam in triathlons, but the people he met in the community kept him coming back. Today we talk about breath, the ways the Universe keeps us learning, and Mike’s business as a...
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slices of divinity
Few humans bring me to my ground of being the way Linda does. Her work as herbalist, aromatherapist, and community organizer are rooted in the soil of Haverhill, Massachusetts, where her business Wildflower Haven Apothecary flourishes from her garden. Linda’s embodied wisdom is equalled only by…
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Labor Day Aloha: ‘Ohana Art & Self-Care Live
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what would Maria do?
Maria Montessori was born August 31, 1870: happy birthday, incredible human! Today we celebrate Maria’s legacy with a conversation between four women who commit themselves to peace building and community connection. Each of us “follow the child” within while learning from the children we…
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where will I learn to discover?
My day often starts with SoulCollage® and qi gong. Each human finds their own routines & rituals at different seasons. These days I’m semi-obsessed with the Reality Check theme Bryar & Von’Erik prompted in June. I regularly ask friends, acquaintances, and strangers “What do you wish you’d learned...
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keep calm & Kecia on
Wanted: 1 skillful/soulful trombone player to collab on a song for the vibe curator featured in today’s episode. Sixteen years bus driving for the MBTA, and Kecia Barnes is the opposite of a Masshole. How does she radiate love amidst the fumes of others’ impatience and the vicissitudes of...
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just keep pedaling
The American Diabetes Association® lucked out when Tim Wilson joined its Ride for the Cure team in 1994. I’ll be doing the ride in Lexington for the first time this coming Sunday, August 16th! Talking with Tim pumped me up: we share a love of cycling as well as a passion to see people understand...
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is life better if we dance?
Today I start and end with snippets of “If the World Just Danced,” a song recorded by Diana Ross in 2021. Yesterday I felt grateful to help lead Zumba® at Open Streets in Jamaica Plain then witness my former student Liz Lister teach Bachata by the River in Cambridge. While some people exude...
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where I set myself free
Brief interlude from this summer’s education focus to explore a related theme: reclaiming creative energy. I met Tom Scotto at Zumi’s coffee shop in Ipswich, Massachusetts this winter, where my bicycle helmet prompted a conversation about New England fortitude. Before either of us walked back…
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Stickers, Soursop & Strategy: @emilindart talks branding Live
Emily Berolo is a dynamo artist, animator, and highly sensitive person whose musings on community, embodiment, and imagination delight me. Emily talks in this episode about her process of design for the 44.4 Collaborative’s new logo. I am assembling a team for the Sunday August 16th New England...
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reality check: what do we miss in school?
A week after we recorded, I realize that I didn’t actually publish this…whoops! I wanted to call this episode “Questing in Kindness” but Von’Erik and Bryar had better thoughts. What do you wish you’d learned in school but had to learn elsewhere? This summer we’ll ask this question alongside...
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may your plans fall through
Whoops! I forgot to schedule today’s SoulCollage® Live … and it feels like a delightful relief. Please subscribe if you’d like to see what I’ve now scheduled for summer. Worth noting that SoulCollage® Lives are one of the only spaces where I ask for payment. Trained facilitators of this process...
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Tom Forsythe joins Hannah: art journaling, SoulCollage & "sticker money"
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songs of freedom: which ring true?
Someday I’ll write a song for the country that I love. Today I practiced the 4th verse of Francis Scott Key’s “The Spar-Spangled Banner” after a morning walk ‘round Prospect Park Hill in Somerville. The Grand Union flag is a beauty surrounded by pollinator gardens and birdsong. Muse on this: what...
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maximize the moment
Von’Erik Barren-Tucker has a mind like no other. From roller blading as movement meditation to commending hyper awareness as a form of artistry, this conversation has had me marveling all day long. I prefer in-person connection to screen time, so it was fun to sit down in my apartment living room...
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moons & Junes & Ali Fields
for Fieldsy top row far left Soprano 1 steady gaze, lyrics memorized, worlds of adolescent wanting waiting on the other side of this concert for students you are haven, for colleagues you are ballast, to your family you are the door that won’t ever be deadbolted in February you let me take this...
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(faith) fully funny
Hannah Trav, Esq. is a stand-up comedian, writer, and lawyer based in Philadelphia. We helped grow each other up by sharing church life in the 90’s and early 2000’s. Hannah is witty, winsome, and dynamic on stage. As a kid she made up sketch comedy with friends. We both remember her hilarious…
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Inherent dignity & hope: Monday Morning Muse Live with Hannah Lynn Mell
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raised on musicals
Bob and I go way back: I posted about his kidney transplant 14 months ago, but we met c. 2008 at Stoneridge Children’s Montessori School, where I taught two of his four children and we shared the effervescence of early childhood magic. I had the good fortune of coaching Bob as a singer 2018-2020;...
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Live with Hannah Lynn Mell
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objects I've (unintentionally) stolen & advice I've ignored
Five-year-old me pipes up to begin this episode. While aspects of the memory are blurry, I’ll never forget the feelings of indignation that came when I was accused of stealing a toy. While I recently took a roll of painter’s tape from a workday at Windhover Performing Arts Center, I confessed it…
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maximizing human creativity
Aloha vibes to the nth degree with the empathic and comedic Ryan Wilson. His Linked In profile suggests that he knows his stuff when it comes to sustainability and complex systems. This conversation runs the gamut from human psychology to spiritual practice, and it comes back again and again to…
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bring in the truth: poetry, sustainability & SoulCollage®
Wonderer, Warrior, and Witness. Triadic conversations delight me just as much as alliteration. Here I play the wonderer while introducing Warrior Von’Erik to bring in truth & tech-speak. Our wise & winsome Witness is Danika, Substack’s own Literary Spinster. Next week: I will air a conversation...
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poetics & possibility
Poetry, courageous expression, and compassionate action may yet shift the tides of foolishness and greed in the direction of love. I grew up learning that miracles can happen and I’ve seen many of them in my 45 years. This evening I’ll be facilitating Roxbury Read Aloud at Long Live Brewery: it’s…
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mindset of an Olympian
It’s Marathon Monday here in Boston, and over the past few days, I’ve fist-bumped women who traveled from France, England, and Michigan to test their endurance. The vivacity of these women may inspire a new song, but Robert Pipkins would advise me to stay focused. Rob made Olympic history in the...
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you can't hit a moving target
Jahmo Chavez and I recorded this last Thursday afternoon…in between carrying boxes up and down the stairs of my old apartment. It was important to me to bless the space through song before I finished moving out, and Jahmo was the perfect soulful friend to help. Jahmo and I met at a Martin Luther...
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winsome warriors
In this episode of Monday Morning Muse on Substack, I share a song by the amazing @joyoladokun to honor her birthday. This episode includes a brief description of "traumagic," a term I may or may not have coined a year or so ago. We are welcoming in spring on Easter Monday and uplifting hope even...
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IDEALS for the in-between
I start this episode reading Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828) as translated by Lucien Stryk & Takashi Ikemoto in John Brehm’s marvelous anthology The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy. Next, I give a quick recap of last year’s creative venture 44.4 the Musical, which is in the rewrite…
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descending 5-note scale
Tip of my tongue to the back of my teeth. Hand on belly, thumb at my tummy button. This is the term she’s using. I chuckle. Might as well be nine again, ready to audition for Annie, the songs memorized and determination gleaming in my eyes. I let sock feet sink into the crevices of the...
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legacy & love
This conversation was a long time coming! Claudia and I became friends in late 2017 when we swapped services: she is a masterful business coach who centers healing, growth, and gentle wisdom. You can find her in New Hampshire and on her website, https://hanielconsulting.com. I feel honored to...
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ribbon in the mist
Thanks for checking out this collaboration! Our posts are public: feel free to share the love :) Hannah Lynn Mell is Monday Morning Muse on Substack and can also be found in other social media spaces, including YouTube & Instagram. Her coaching practice is called Total Resonance (out of the...
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what if limitless love is all around us?
Hi there! As we navigate seasons changing & our individual wants and wonderings, I love my friend Andrea Coates Vinson’s question. What if we do belong and the limitless love is all around us? I hope to someday share a podcast of a conversation with Andrea, but the question itself (from a poem…
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what if there is nothing wrong?
Good morning! This is where I begin a new series, asking questions that prompt a mindset change. Feel free to skip the video. You can respond in comments here or on another social media platform. I’ll do a live video recording with someone that gets posted on YouTube by week’s end! If you have a...
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Quiet down, I'm doing a bit
Mama, listen to “Sit down, you’re rocking the boat” from The Music Man. If you don’t know what I’m doing, it’s just ‘cause I’m not telling you yet. Said every writer ever. I’m not trying to be rude if I don’t respond to a comment. I’m just working on something that’s not finished yet! Monday...
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Live with Hannah Lynn Mell
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faith-full & fervent
Recently on YouTube I posted a quick rendition of an old worship song I recorded in 2002. The actual recording is what you’re hearing in this post. But as I sit in my new apartment in downtown Boston, I’m remembering “messy desk zen,” a 2012 post I wrote for my WordPress blog - Breathe Deep. The...
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Live with Hannah Lynn Mell
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Live with Hannah Lynn Mell
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Live with Hannah Lynn Mell
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darkness shall not overcome us
Please DM me if you’d like to see a tidy transcript of this episode or if you’d like to receive the link for the Team44point4 Venmo. Patreon coming soon! The song I mention in this post is Nichole Nordeman’s Legacy. The organizations I mention in this post include * Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center -...
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this just in: the world is not yet perfect
This is a long one that includes a rambling personal update. More succinct offerings are on the horizon! Monday Morning Muse is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss...
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on divinity, Shakespeare & rainy weather
in this shout-out to Windhover Performing Arts Center, Lane’s Coven, and all-that-is-worth-savoring on our planet, images are courtesy of me & the legendary Ashley Elisabeth Smith of Wide Eyed Studios in Philadelphia. Ashley showed up in a big way for team 44.4’s staged reading of my...
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she used to be mine (by Sara Bareilles)
True Covers: For me, a “true cover” is a song that I love enough to revise: I alter the lyrics so that it feels more true to me. When I sing something repeatedly, I want to make sure I’m sending out vibrations that are in full alignment with who I am becoming. (“True Covers” also sounds like…
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what bipolar means to me (cont.)
In this video I get back into the “weeds” of the paper I’m using to: * share & better understand my own journey with bipolar (here’s the original post) * ignite conversation about how we can help each other rather than relying on systems to “fix” the challenges of our time * prove I can still be…
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living out loud
Singing a favorite song from the musical A Little Princess (Andrew Lippa/Brian Crawley) to celebrate a beloved friend and soul sister, Maria Gabriela Raskind, on her birthday. Thanks for making “growing up” look so wildly beautiful on the regular, rock star! And my humble apologies to anyone who…
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uplift those you might ignore
This post goes out to Dot Pineiro, to Laura Rodriguez, to Jess Plante, to Jay Mejia, to Jay Caplan, to Amy Sittnick: some of the administrative professionals I’ve known and adored at Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center … as I’m writing this, I realize that Lindsay Smagula probably also needs credit for...
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Musical theater educator, interfaith chaplain & former crisis worker Hannah shares the mic with guests interested in health, creative expression, narrative therapy, and long term resilience.
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Musical theater educator, interfaith chaplain & former crisis worker Hannah shares the mic with guests interested in health, creative expression, narrative therapy, and long term resilience. mondaymorningmuse.substack.com
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