How to pronounce “mend”(verb) in English

And at the same time, there were a whole slew of books that came out around then about people who, having a midlife crisis, went to an ashram in Indiaor decided to help mend their broken heart by eating a lot of pasta in Italy or by fixing up a house in Tuscany.There was a general feeling politically, socially, culturally in the United States that all these other countries in the world were really there for our enrichment,