How to Deal When the Shit Gets Real Podcast · Rietta Boksha

Lindi Edge: Connection and Loss | Healthy Communication in Relationships and Coping with Grief

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Lindy says grief has no timeline and describes preparing for her mother’s death after a pancreatic cancer diagnosis.

1. How to Deal When the Shit Gets Real Podcast uses Lindy Edge’s interview to connect healthy communication in relationships with grief and intimacy. 2. Lindy Edge is introduced as a licensed journeyman hairstylist with 30 years in the beauty and film industry, plus practical effects, relationship coaching, and emceeing for the Taboo Show. 3. The conversation asks what people do “when the shit gets real,” and Lindy frames the answer around communication, intimacy, and self-awareness. 4. Lindy says her chair work, on-set work, and audience work taught her to hold a space where people could talk about boyfriends, husbands, wives, breakups, heartbreaks, and belonging. 5. She says she became known as someone people trusted with their stories because the conversations were really about being heard, not just hair or makeup. 6. Lindy describes her move into the Taboo Show as the turning point that deepened her habit of asking personal questions and interviewing audience members. 7. She says taboo subjects stay hidden behind closed doors, and she wants them brought into open conversation. 8. Lindy traces her makeup path back to being five years old at Green Water in Saskatchewan and seeing a woman she thought was beautiful. 9. She says she started doing makeup on friends in school, then learned practical effects as a teenager by creating a fake bruise with blue eyeshadow. 10. Lindy says her film career began around 1990 in Saskatchewan, moving from daily to assistant to first assistant to key makeup artist and key hairstylist. 11. She points listeners to IMDB, Versa Films in Saskatoon, Minds Eye Productions, Verite Films, and Spiritbox music videos as places where her work appears. 12. Lindy’s first major relationship rule is that partners are not mind readers, and she says many relationships fail because people stop communicating clearly and honestly. 13. She says resentment builds when people avoid hard conversations, and she advises becoming the calmer person long enough to step back for five minutes. 14. Lindy says love is not only a feeling but a daily practice, and she warns that partners cannot heal unhealed wounds for each other. 15. She says people often repeat what is familiar rather than what is healthy, and she links partner choice to unresolved wounds rather than chemistry alone. 16. Lindy recommends five books: Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller, The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman, Hold Me Tight by Dr. C. Johansson, Getting the Love You Want by Harville Hendricks, and The Mountain is You by Brianna Weist. 17. Her grief advice centers on the line that there is no timeline on grief, and she says the real issue is how a person handles it. 18. Lindy describes her mother’s illness, the family’s last days together, the hand-holding, and her sense that loved ones remain near even after death. 19. The episode has an interview style, with Rieta prompting long answers, follow-ups, and occasional repeated affirmations. 20. Listeners who want relationship coaching, intimacy talk, and grief reflection will get the most from it; listeners wanting fast, light banter will likely skip it.

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