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Tune In to Your Heart: A Podcast for Healing
How to listen to my podcast. It’s specifically for people recovering from a heart attack or cardiac surgery. It’s a place to connect, heal, and find hope.
Finding Your Sweet Spot: Heart Healthy Nutrition
Hear about her journey becoming a registered dietitian specializing in cardiac rehab and her passion for helping individuals find their sweet spot in nutrition. It’s a fun interview and involves chocolate and wine!
Fictional Cardiac Story – Egregious Fortune
Today’s episode is going to be rather different; it’s a fictional story. It’s a story of someone that had a heart attack. It’s the first story that I have found that is fictional about having a cardiac event so it is rather novel (excuse the pun, or not 😊).
Why Quitting Smoking is Critical to Reducing Inflammation and Heart Disease
Smoking. You already know this is bad for your health. Yet, it can feel like one of the hardest habits to kick. Well, that all depends on how you look at it I guess. Below, I have shared some of the lesser-known facts about smoking and your heart health. There...
The Cardiac Trauma Reprocessing BLAST Technique®: Everything You Need to Know
Before you start out with any treatment, you always have a lot of questions. This is understandable, it’s unchartered territory for you. How do you know this is going to work? What will you have to do? Will it make you worse? What actually happens? I have collated the...
What is the Cardiac Trauma Reprocessing Technique?
Living with trauma or PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder) following a heart attack, heart surgery or cardiac arrest can be very debilitating. It affects your life in a lot of ways. Your brain may be making you relive some of the events, you can have flashbacks that...
How to Help Yourself When Feeling Emotional After a Cardiac Event
Feeling emotional after a heart attack, surgery, or cardiac arrest? I’m sure, whilst you are reading this, you may be feeling as though you can't see an ending to this anxiety and worry. You may even think it's pointless trying. You may have started reading these...
Books that can Help You Get Over the Impact of a Heart Attack, Surgery, or Cardiac Arrest
Is it just me? - Getting over the impact of a heart attack After any traumatic event in our lives, there is a period of reflection. We question the why’s and what we could have done to prevent the event from happening. Getting over the impact of a heart attack or...
7 Things to Aid Your Recovery from a Heart Attack, Cardiac Event, or Heart Surgery
Is how you feel after a heart attack, cardiac event, or heart surgery normal? Suffering from anxiety, breathlessness, panic, sleeplessness, anger, loneliness, frustration, sadness, grief, or fear? All of these feelings are completely normal to experience during...