Healing After Someone You Love Takes Their Own Life | Mandi Leigh
From Grapevine Wellness Show · 56:41
Show by Jolyn Armstrong
Mandi Leigh spent years as a film assistant director working 15 to 20 hour days. When a pair of knee surgeries pushed her into a slower job, she had a daily routine for the first time in her adult life, and she used it to start guitar lessons. Not long after, she lost a close friend, on-and-off partner, and landlord who took his own life. She was the last person to see him and the last person he messaged.In this episode, Mandi walks through the healing she chose on purpose and the parts that surprised her. She talks about ten months of body-based trauma processing that made it possible to speak about that night without being flooded, the long work of untangling guilt and every "what if," and the songs that gave everything left over somewhere to go. The first song she wrote was the conversation she never got to have with him.Jolyn and Mandi explore why talking alone only reached so far for her, how a relationship with someone we've lost keeps changing after they're gone, and why a loss this common is still so hard to say out loud. Mandi also shares what she does differently now when someone says something that doesn't sound quite like them.If you are struggling or worried about someone, call or text 988 (US and Canada).Show Notes:Website: https://www.mandileigh.comIG: https://www.instagram.com/mandileighmusicFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558553013935Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0kASXV5thTNYS1lE6xDYEg?si=q0dbHvtHQvmdUDolcQfCXAYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MandiMakesMusicTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@themandileigh
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