by Sallie Crawley | Nov 28, 2024 | Healthy Heart Living & Risk Reduction, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast, Stories & Inspiration
A Balanced Approach to Heart Healthy Nutrition This week in my conversation, we will explore the journey of Cheryl Strachan, a registered dietitian from Canada, who shares her experience working in cardiac rehabilitation and her approach to nutrition for heart health....
by Sallie Crawley | Oct 27, 2022 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Therapies
Before you start out with any treatment, you always have a lot of questions. This is understandable, it’s unchartered territory for you. How do you know this is going to work? What will you have to do? Will it make you worse? What actually happens? I have collated the...
by Sallie Crawley | Oct 20, 2022 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Therapies
Living with trauma or PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder) following a heart attack, heart surgery or cardiac arrest can be very debilitating. It affects your life in a lot of ways. Your brain may be making you relive some of the events, you can have flashbacks that...
by Sallie Crawley | Oct 6, 2022 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Stories & Inspiration, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
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 | Sep 29, 2022 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
Is how you feel after a heart attack, cardiac event, or heart surgery normal? Suffering from anxiety, breathlessness, panic, sleeplessness, anger, loneliness, frustration, sadness, grief, or fear? All of these feelings are completely normal to experience during...
by Sallie Crawley | Apr 28, 2022 | Confidence, Acceptance & Moving Forward, Everyday Life, Work & Travel, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast, Symptoms, Monitoring & Knowing When to Get Help
A few weeks ago I talked about my experience of fatigue, fatigue management and what fatigue can feel like. I discussed the difference between tiredness and fatigue along with reasons why after a heart attack, heart surgery or living with heart disease we might have...
