by Sallie Crawley | Dec 3, 2025 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Healthy Heart Living & Risk Reduction, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
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...
by Sallie Crawley | Nov 26, 2025 | Confidence, Acceptance & Moving Forward, Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Everyday Life, Work & Travel, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast, Relationships, Family, Carers & Intimacy
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...
by Sallie Crawley | Nov 19, 2025 | Confidence, Acceptance & Moving Forward, Healthy Heart Living & Risk Reduction, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast, Symptoms, Monitoring & Knowing When to Get Help, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
Alcohol and Your Heart: Finding Balance After a Cardiac Event “Oh no, do I have to give up red wine?!”Sallie Crawley That was one of the many thoughts racing around my head at 100 mph when I found myself lying in a hospital bed after a heart attack. After being told I...
by Sallie Crawley | Aug 18, 2025 | Confidence, Acceptance & Moving Forward, Healthy Heart Living & Risk Reduction, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast
Self-care can often be confused with selfishness, this is so not the truth. Consider self care after a cardiac event in the same way you would when you are instructed to put the oxygen mask on yourself first before helping others when on a plane. Listen here and read...
by Sallie Crawley | Jul 28, 2025 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Everyday Life, Work & Travel, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast, Relationships, Family, Carers & Intimacy, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
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...
by Sallie Crawley | Jun 9, 2025 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast, Symptoms, Monitoring & Knowing When to Get Help, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
Can a heart attack, cardiac arrest or open heart surgery cause trauma or PTSD? The quick answer to this is, YES of course it can. Many people, like you and I, experience trauma when they are diagnosed with chronic health conditions like heart disease, cancer, MS,...
