Chonteau McElvin

Chonteau McElvin In service to the ancientness and the remembrance. I am permission for feeling deeply and openly.

Beans from my bush beans plants. What a cool experience to disrupt the empire’s plans to keep me dependent. It’s the lit...
01/20/2026

Beans from my bush beans plants.

What a cool experience to disrupt the empire’s plans to keep me dependent.

It’s the little things… they add up.

Rooting deeper in the economy that feels true

01/19/2026

Today was chef’s day. We do a Dr King ancestor meal every year.

Coconut custard pie
Oh my!

Our legacy is food as love, connection and memory

I am feeling quite connected to my new WhatsApp community, SCU threads. It feels  cozy and quiet, exactly what my system...
01/18/2026

I am feeling quite connected to my new WhatsApp community, SCU threads.

It feels cozy and quiet, exactly what my system desires for sustainable presence.

It’s not that I don’t like sharing my offerings publicly, I require a container, not a stage, that is void of analytics and performative structures.

If you want to stay lightly tethered to my voice and what’s moving through as offerings, join my new What’s App group.

Link below copy and paste in url
https://chat.whatsapp.com/Cwq3MpPwHJ27yk8ogcBVNz

01/18/2026

Most folks try to push the waves of grief

pretend the wave is not as big as it is

resist the undertow that will take you out into the middle of no where

extract the wisdom before the cycle ends

I get it… that was me a looooong time.

And then there’s this morning~ after days of incessant crashing

Feeling the coolness and tenderness of a gentle tide rolling in.

There’s no holding on to it
Desperately trying to keep hold of the calm in between

It’s where I be, it’s what’s present
and fo sho that’s enough

Song is Hey Ya David M. Wyatt

Our inability to be with endings Our inability to be with the depth of our grief without apology Our addiction to sunshi...
01/17/2026

Our inability to be with endings

Our inability to be with the depth of our grief without apology

Our addiction to sunshine

is creating a world of walking dead

Sometimes water speaks in the crushing waves and even then their is healing

01/12/2026

Nothin like hot fruit oat crumble on a chilly day!

The truth is I keep a lot of what I am  offer in close community. It’s just my way. I used to think I was afraid of visi...
01/09/2026

The truth is I keep a lot of what I am offer in close community.

It’s just my way. I used to think I was afraid of visibly, that’s what the marketing “experts” would say. Or I heard it was not wanting my services out there bad enough, I didn’t understand my worth or value.

None of these experts ever said my system is built for relationships… real ones. Not the ones that lead to sales, not the ones that are fake, but the ones that take months, often years of connection.

These experts never encouraged me to explore the types of economies that my system can and enjoys holding. I was only encouraged to match theirs.

All this to say, much of what I offer lives in close community; that’s where my work breathes and unfolds.

So… Here’s the invite to lean in closer. I just created a WhatsApp group for those who want to stay gently tethered to what’s blooming from me without all the noise.

Turns out my system doesn’t do well in noise and bright lights. I create opportunities for quieter connection~ that is layered and allows for space

Feeling it go to my linktree https://linktr.ee/chonteaumcelvin

Or the description on IG

Water brings in a slower flow... Yes I read this is a fire horse year in Chinese astrology. Interesting because in ancie...
01/08/2026

Water brings in a slower flow...

Yes I read this is a fire horse year in Chinese astrology. Interesting because in ancient Afrikan cosmology/ Dagara this is a water year.

Water brings coolness to that which has been burning "too long".

Neither is wrong

simply layers of truth unfolding and emerging.

Our journey's this 2026 will bring healing and harmony through releasing what has been holding fire's heat.

My next article has been released
https://open.substack.com/pub/chonteau/p/surrendering-to-waters-flow?r=4toyq4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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