The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Melissa-Sue Methven on Healing After Loss and Leading with Love
28 Apr 2025
Melissa-Sue Methven, an inspiring author, speaker, and breathwork coach, shares her deeply personal journey of resilience, healing, and purpose. Following the tragic loss of her husband to suicide in 2022, Melissa was propelled into a mission to not only heal herself and her young children but to help others find their path to recovery. Drawing from her own experiences and global adventures as a former flight attendant, she now dedicates her life to guiding people through grief, self-discovery, and reconnecting with their true purpose.The conversation covers crucial topics like the importance of self-care, breaking generational trauma, finding momentum after tragedy, and building a lasting legacy. Melissa shares practical strategies for emotional healing, the power of storytelling, and emphasizes that leadership — whether in a family or business — starts with taking care of oneself first. Her journey shows how surrendering to life’s uncertain paths and trusting the process can lead to deep personal transformation.CHAPTERS 02:35 Melissa's Mission: Helping People Move Forward 04:12 Melissa's Story of Loss and Purpose 06:21 First Step to Healing: Finding Stillness 08:02 Why Self-Care Matters 10:01 Daily Practices for Mental Strength 11:06 The Role of Surrender and Letting Go 12:23 Building Momentum After Loss 13:46 Growth Happens One Step at a Time 14:32 What Legacy Means to MelissaGUEST DETAILSWebsite - https://www.melissagratitude.life/FB - Melissa Sue MethvenIG - Melissa_gratitudeYT - Melissa_gratitudeBook - The Truth Behind The Smile (audible/amazon)
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My husband died by suicide on March 10, 2022, leaving myself and my two young children at the time were six and eight. And that propelled me to share our story. And I knew I had to stop there with his story and not continue on to my children. So I dove into all the healing modalities and took care of myself first.
And then I realized that by sharing my story, it allowed others a safe place to share theirs.
Melissa Sue Methven is an author, speaker, and breathwork coach dedicated to helping others heal and reconnect with their truth. From traveling the world as a flight attendant to building a life in Alaska, her journey through love, loss, and resilience now fuels her mission to guide others out of darkness and into purpose.
So many people suffer with this behind the scenes. Yeah. if people are whether they're stuck now or in a bad place or a bad relationship or something needs to change how do you recommend they start i would say it spans the globe like a super high school internet elvis
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Hello and welcome back to another episode of Legacy Makers. Today we're going to talk all about saving lives, how if you're maybe feeling stuck in your current life, how you can work on that new version and break through that and a whole bunch more. We're here with Melissa. Welcome to the show.
Thank you. It's a great honor. Thank you for having me.
cool so i'm excited for this you're doing a lot of things you're a speaker an author uh you run these master classes you help people go from stuck to unstuck right and and that's a big problem in the world so many people i meet have these goals and dreams i see them a year later they're still talking about their goals and dreams right and they need people like you to help unstick them so let's start there like what is it that you do
Well, after I wrote my book, The Truth Behind the Smiles, I realized that by sharing my story, it allowed others to see their truth and share their story, a safe place to do that. So I'm really just reconnecting everyone to themselves. First of all, I feel like we're all very much cluttered, even too busy in the mind or even the gut. So I start with a full kind of a...
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