The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Melissa-Sue Methven on Healing After Loss and Leading with Love
Mon, 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)
Chapter 1: What motivated Melissa to share her story?
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
Chapter 2: How did Melissa's loss shape her purpose?
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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.
Chapter 3: What is the first step to healing after loss?
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
Chapter 4: Why is self-care crucial for healing?
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...
fasting, so to kind of, because if your gut is not aligned, then the mental health as well, it affects everything. So I try to declutter the mind with journaling, gratitude prayers, and meditations.
Chapter 5: What daily practices can strengthen mental health?
and then it's through nutrition as well so i gotta declutter so then people can find that stillness and reconnect to themselves remember who they are and the purpose that they're here for so that's what i guide them through first and then we're able to find that they're going through in their lives, that they get stuck. They can't move forward.
Chapter 6: How can one embrace surrender and let go?
So it sounds a very holistic approach, right? A to Z, looking at their life, nutrition, diet, probably sleep, I imagine, everything like that, mental health, environment, energy. And you're looking at these things and and looking at where maybe the biggest bottlenecks are. And often I imagine that multiple places. Right.
Chapter 7: What strategies help build momentum after tragedy?
And I do want to revisit this and get some tips there for people that are in this position. I mean, it's a big percent, like I said, but I also want to just talk about the other side. Right. I you know, this this podcast is named Saving Lives. So there's got to be a story behind that.
Yes, yes. Well, my husband died by suicide in March 10th, 2022, leaving myself and my two young children at the time were six and eight. And that propelled me to share our story because my husband had suicide in his family as well. Both grandparents on both sides. You can call it a generational curse.
Chapter 8: What does legacy mean to Melissa?
Yeah.
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. And then after I wrote my book, The Truth Behind the Smiles, people were writing to me and saying, I've checked myself into rehab.
I'm an alcoholic, and I'm going to seek help. Or they were writing to me, and they were in an abusive relationship. And as they're writing to me, they're seeing more clearly and getting out of that fog. And now, a year later after that, that realization, they have now moved out of state. have been able to keep their children safe. So I feel it is saving lives because I'm just sharing my truth.
It's allowing others to see their truth.
Well, I mean, that's, you know, yeah, that's, you know, such a great story. And I think it shows the power of storytelling, right? Which is probably what Legacy Makers is about is people sharing their own journey and how they've overcome certain obstacles in life and,
uh now they're helping other people do the same and i mean this is just a great example of that right and obviously uh such an important example too because so many people suffer with this behind the scene yeah um so so what uh you know maybe let's start there through everything you've learned and gone through 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 start with finding space for stillness so they can really reconnect to themselves where it's self-care, like investing in themselves. A lot of times we have a hard time investing in ourself. We'll invest in our kids. And the best advice I got from an organ donor at the hospital was to take care of myself first. And my kids would co-regulate with me.
So I always say self-love, like just go get the care that you need. Seek out, ask for help. I was hyper, hyper independent and asking for help was really hard, but I had no choice after my husband died. And so that was a big one. So I always tell people, reach out, ask for help and take care of yourself.
Well, and I think that I'm really interested by the, you know, taking care of yourself first, because there's this like, I think thing in the world where some people are like, you know, it's selfish to actually take care of everyone else. Then there's the other side where, you know, and there's a famous saying, you know, like when an airplane's going down. That's right.
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