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 | Apr 13, 2021 | Direction, Emotions, Exercise, Interviews, Podcast
Steve Wrigley was flying home when he had a cardiac arrest on a plane. Prior to this Steve was was fit and healthy, he loved adventure holidays that revolved around cycling. He went with friends he’d met on previous adventures on a trip to Bali. Steve shares his story...
by Sallie Crawley | Mar 30, 2021 | Acceptance, Emotions, Hope, Interviews, Podcast, Purpose
Ray Bishop was born with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome. This did not affect his quality of life until after he had developed coronary heart disease. This was after many misdiagnoses. He was lucky that as by this time, cardiac ablation could be carried out on him for...
by Sallie Crawley | Mar 10, 2021 | Acceptance, Emotions, Hope, Interviews, Podcast, Purpose, Therapy
In February 2019, Eliza had a successful heart transplant recipient at Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire, UK. It was a life-saving event that focussed her on fundraising and being a patient advocate. Eliza explains that she was born with congenital heart disease but...
by Sallie Crawley | Mar 3, 2021 | Diabetes, Emotions, Hope, Interviews, Podcast, Purpose
Claire was nominated in 2020 for the BHF Heart Hero Awards. She has contributed in amazing ways to raise awareness of heart failure and has had many TV interviews, been in national papers and BHF publications. Claire tells us about her life growing up with type 1...
by Sallie Crawley | Mar 13, 2019 | Direction, Emotions, Energy, Hope, How to, Purpose
In my last post on this subject, I focussed on how you can help yourself with your emotional rehabilitation and at the same time be helping others to feel good too. Now it is all about you, yes really. You can feel fine after a heart attack. After a cardiac event, you...
