Love, Intimacy & Sex after a Heart Attack or Surgery

Love, Intimacy & Sex after a Heart Attack or Surgery

This may be the last thing on your mind when you first come out of the hospital, but how do you get the zing back into your love life after an event or surgery? Well, read on to rediscover love, intimacy and sex after a heart attack or surgery. Listen here and read on...
Ejection Fraction (EF) and Your Heart

Ejection Fraction (EF) and Your Heart

From Fear to Freedom – Step by Step, Beat by Beat Imagine your heart as a super‑powered pump. Its job? To send blood filled with oxygen and nutrients to every part of your body. But just like any pump, your heart has a strength level and that’s where ejection...
Living with a Healthy Heart and a Happy Brain

Living with a Healthy Heart and a Happy Brain

From Fear to Freedom – Step by Step, Beat by Beat Harnessing your neurotransmitters: Learning about how you can have happy brain chemicals despite having a cardiac event. Today we are talking about Cortisol & Adrenaline and Dopamine, Serotonin, Endorphins...
Coming Home: What the Early Months After a Heart Attack Really Feel Like

Coming Home: What the Early Months After a Heart Attack Really Feel Like

Something that I get asked quite often is “What happens and how will I feel in the first few weeks and months after leaving the hospital following heart surgery or a heart attack?” A question that most people will have running through their minds at some point after a...