A Better Pill To Swallow
Just a spoonful of humor helps the medicine go down. Inspired by his brother’s suicide David unleashes his outlandish banter and passion for mental health with his good friends and experts alike. He challenges the over-medicated status quo, asking questions and exploring new holistic alternatives with his guests from a wide array of experience and discipline.
A Better Pill To Swallow
8. Caring For A Dying Partner & The Right To Die, Part 1
Next guest up is Sandi Neiman. She’s a licensed marital and family therapist, previously the COO of National Seating and Mobility, a multi-billion dollar national healthcare business…and if you’ll notice her last name, she also happens to be the host's stepmother.
In this special two-part episode just in time for Father's Day, Sandi leads us through her experience of the full body contact sport that was being married to David's father, Bennett Neiman. He was afflicted with family trauma, abuse, and undiagnosed mental illness. She had a front-row seat for his rapid decline as it related to his past, and the undeniable coup de gras: my brother’s meltdown, disappearance, and tragic death. We discuss multi-generational trauma, and further dimensions of my brother’s demise including our cultural understanding of body sovereignty.
