by Sallie Crawley | Jan 4, 2019 | Confidence, Acceptance & Moving Forward, Emotional Recovery & Mental Health
The next couple of activities come from my feeling good handbook. They are about how to help yourself and help others as you recover after a heart attack and stents. They are about how our shared experiences can boost the feel good factor in ourselves and the people...
by Sallie Crawley | Dec 28, 2018 | Confidence, Acceptance & Moving Forward, Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation
Continuing on from my last post How to feel good for 12 days at Christmas, I am reminded it’s not just at Christmas time that you can feel overwhelmed. Maybe it’s going on holiday; the planning, the packing, the arrangements, going away and then coming...
by Sallie Crawley | Dec 21, 2018 | Confidence, Acceptance & Moving Forward, Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Everyday Life, Work & Travel
Christmas is supposed to be an amazing time of the year, full of family and friends, kindness and good cheer. It’s fun, sparkly and festive and a full on celebration of happiness. This time of year can also be stressful and can be exhausting with the night drawing it,...
by Sallie Crawley | Oct 7, 2018 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Healthy Heart Living & Risk Reduction, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation
Not only is lack of sleep and poor sleep quality frustrating and debilitating, but it also affects your mood and your well-being. It has been found that lack of sleep can increase the risk of heart attack along with many other health issues. In relation to heart...
by Sallie Crawley | Oct 6, 2018 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Symptoms, Monitoring & Knowing When to Get Help, Therapies
Many people experience anxiety and stress, along with depression following a serious health issue such as a heart attack. As part of rehabilitation the team may recommend managing stress as one of your risk factors. Using therapies and techniques such as Hypnosis, NLP...
by Sallie Crawley | Oct 6, 2018 | Confidence, Acceptance & Moving Forward, Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Therapies
How do you get your mojo back after a cardiac event? After a major illness such as a heart attack or cancer, it’s not just the physical body that is affected, it’s how you feel too that counts. Your self-esteem and confidence take a knock too. When you...
