MLLO
/mel low/
noun, mantra, collective
MLLO is a name that echoes the word "mellow”.
It reflects our commitment to honoring the softness, slowness, and sacredness that every soul deserves while moving through grief and healing.
About Us
May Love Live On (MLLO) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting individuals and families navigating grief, loss, and life transitions. Through community gatherings, remembrance events, and creative healing programs, MLLO creates compassionate spaces where people can process grief together rather than in isolation.
Rooted in the framework of Transformational Art Therapy, our programs invite participants to engage grief through reflection, storytelling, creative expression, and shared experience. These gatherings encourage emotional honesty, community care, and personal transformation while honoring the reality that grief is a natural and deeply human experience.
MLLO was created in response to the widespread absence of communal grief rituals in modern society. Many people are expected to carry profound loss privately without spaces to share their stories or receive meaningful support. Our work seeks to restore those communal spaces by bringing people together to witness one another with compassion and presence.
Through our Healing Hearts Circles, remembrance gatherings, and creative programs, MLLO is building a community ecosystem where grieving hearts are nourished rather than neglected.
Stephan Houston
Our Founder
Stephan Houston is the Founder and Executive Director of
May Love Live On, (MLLO). His work is deeply informed by personal experiences with loss, caregiving, and community service.
Stephan earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Development from California State University Long Beach. He began his career working as a Youth Counselor in residential care facilities, supporting adolescents in navigating difficult life circumstances before later serving as a Correctional Officer with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. These experiences shaped his understanding of how unresolved trauma and grief often surface when communities lack accessible support systems.
In 2017, after his mother Betty Ann Arnold received her first breast cancer diagnosis, Stephan founded Plate Of Hue, a plant-based catering and private chef service centered on soulful and colorful nourishment as a pathway for care, and connection.
Following his mother’s passing in 2021, Stephan created MLLO to address the isolation that he and many others experience while grieving. What began as intimate online grief circles while he sought solace and healing in Bali, Indonesia has grown into a nonprofit initiative that we now know as MLLO!
Through this work, Stephan is committed to building spaces where grief can be witnessed, honored, and supported in community.
Our Connection to Bees
At MLLO, bees are more than a symbol, they are keepers of wisdom, guides, and reflections of how we grieve, heal, and transform together.
In many traditions, bees are seen as messengers between worlds, carrying whispers to our ancestors and returning with blessings.
Like grief, they work in both silence and song. Like love, bees gather sweetness, even through sorrow.
The hive reminds us that healing is not only individual, it’s communal.
Every bee plays a part. Every loss is felt by the whole.
Every return to joy is honey shared by us all.
Just as bees transform pollen into nectar and nectar into honey, we aim to support in transforming pain into prayer and memory into meaning.
MLLO is our hive. Grief is our pollen. Love is our nectar. Transformation is our honey.
