by Sallie Crawley | Mar 30, 2026 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Healthy Heart Living & Risk Reduction, Podcast, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
Do you ever read things on social media and wonder if it is true or not? I always find it worrying when it is connected to health and wellbeing. In this day and age with Artificial Intelligence, it is really hard to tell sometimes with images too. I have been fooled a...
by Sallie Crawley | Jan 7, 2026 | Podcast, Symptoms, Monitoring & Knowing When to Get Help, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
Vasodilators are used to ease chest pain, and to treat and prevent angina. They help by relaxing and widening your blood vessels, reducing blood pressure, and lowering the heart’s workload, which can relieve angina symptoms. A category of vasodilators called nitrates...
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 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 | Jul 14, 2025 | Everyday Life, Work & Travel, Healthy Heart Living & Risk Reduction, Podcast, Symptoms, Monitoring & Knowing When to Get Help
I’m in the UK, and as the temperatures begin to climb, I thought it would be good to dive into a really important topic: Staying Heart-Healthy in the Summer Heat. Hot weather can be challenging for anyone, but for those of us with heart conditions, it presents unique...
