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 | Dec 15, 2022 | Healthy Heart Living & Risk Reduction, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
Smoking. You already know this is bad for your health. Yet, it can feel like one of the hardest habits to kick. Well, that all depends on how you look at it I guess. Below, I have shared some of the lesser-known facts about smoking and your heart health. There...
by Sallie Crawley | Apr 20, 2021 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Podcast, Relationships, Family, Carers & Intimacy, Stories & Inspiration, Symptoms, Monitoring & Knowing When to Get Help, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
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 | 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 | Oct 6, 2018 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Symptoms, Monitoring & Knowing When to Get Help, Therapies
Many people experience anxiety and stress, along with depression following a serious health issue such as a heart attack. As part of rehabilitation the team may recommend managing stress as one of your risk factors. Using therapies and techniques such as Hypnosis, NLP...
