by Sallie Crawley | Oct 13, 2022 | Acceptance, Confidence, Emotions, Hope, How to, Trauma
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...
by Sallie Crawley | Oct 6, 2022 | Acceptance, Confidence, Emotions, Hope, Trauma
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...
by Sallie Crawley | Apr 29, 2022 | Acceptance, Confidence, Direction, Emotions, Hope, Podcast, Relaxamation
Quit hiding your magic! You are UNIQUE. You are whole, healthy & complete. The only one like you. Your fingerprints are one of a kind, not even identical twins have matching ones. You are the outcome of one egg and around 40 million sperm, any other sperm and you...
by Sallie Crawley | May 27, 2021 | Confidence, How to, Medication
Vasodilators (anti-angina) medicines are used to ease chest pain, to treat and prevent angina. It helps as it relaxes and widens your blood vessels and decreases your blood pressure. A category of vasodilators called nitrates increases the supply of blood and oxygen...
by Sallie Crawley | Apr 20, 2021 | Acceptance, Blood pressure, Confidence, Emotions, Exercise, Hope, Podcast
She had been experiencing regular headaches and stress, at one point thought her blood pressure machine must have been broken. Who’d have thought about a heart attack. Constant headaches and stress Sara was fit, healthy and ate a good diet. She had been...
by Sallie Crawley | Mar 19, 2021 | Acceptance, Confidence, Energy, Interviews, Podcast
Just before her 50th birthday Tena was admitted to hospital with unstable angina, and this was just the beginning of her story. Tena lives with many cardiac and respiratory chronic illnesses and she shares with us her journey, and her coping mechanisms that helped her...
