About Mel's Messy Love Lab

I'm Melanie Moseley, and I've spent 62 years on this planet so far collecting stories, making mistakes, and figuring out what it means to live authentically. I'm a theatre artist, musician, writer, and recovering perfectionist who believes that our messiest moments often hold our greatest wisdom.

My background includes touring the country performing improv, storytelling, and one-woman shows, running a theatre company, developing workshops for organizations like Kaiser Permanente and Sex Positive Portland, and working in international education that took me around the world. I've explored everything from monogamy to polyamory, raised an emotionally intelligent human (my 24-year-old son Ethan), navigated addiction and recovery, and learned that reinventing yourself is a lifelong practice, not a one-time event.

What You'll Find in the Love Lab:

Saturdays: Lab Notes—The mess of my life isn’t the failure. The mess is the data—no hypothesis, no clean conclusion, just me in a lab coat, running the experiment on myself and reporting back before I know how it ends.

Wednesdays: Field Notes—Not my experiment—someone else’s. Proof I didn’t make this up. Proof it’s not just me in a tent on my mother’s property talking to myself, Shadow, and the nature all around me. Proof the belief travels. That I see it in other humans.

Every now and again: Playshops (workshops with the focus on play with a purpose!) where we experiment together with things like writing your own user manual, creating authentic connections, and embracing the beautiful mess of being human.

This isn't a place for polished life advice or perfect solutions. It's a laboratory where we test out what authentic living actually looks like—with all its glitter, messiness, and surprising depth. If you're ready to experiment with being exactly who you are, welcome to the Love Lab.

Currently writing from Fiddletown, CA after relocating to rural Northern California from Portland, OR with my black cat Shadow as writing companion.