by Sallie Crawley | Mar 13, 2019 | Confidence, Acceptance & Moving Forward, Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation
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...
by Sallie Crawley | Mar 11, 2019 | Everyday Life, Work & Travel, Healthy Heart Living & Risk Reduction, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation
Swapping one addiction for another? I wanted to know how to stop smoking naturally. There is the option to take medication to help you quit the fags but that’s not for everyone and can have some nasty side effects. Like me do you want to stop smoking without...
by Sallie Crawley | Mar 4, 2019 | Healthy Heart Living & Risk Reduction, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation
Are you ready? Change is one of the constants in your life and getting ready to quit smoking signifies the start of your journey. Over 20 years ago two alcoholism researchers, Carlo C. DiClemente and J. O. Prochaska, developed a model of change to help with addiction...
by Sallie Crawley | Jan 26, 2019 | Healthy Heart Living & Risk Reduction, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation
How long have you smoked? Being a smoker since the age of 14 it took my heart attack at 52 to make me decide once and for all to quit smoking. I had heard and read about some of the facts, the good reasons to quit, but it hadn’t made a difference until it happened to...
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 | 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...
