by Sallie Crawley | Jul 6, 2026 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
Pumphead and the Heart Brain Connection explained. If you are reading this, you’ve likely survived a major cardiac event and a complex surgery. You’ve been told the surgery was a success, and by all clinical markers, you are “mending.” Yet, inside, things...
by Sallie Crawley | Dec 17, 2025 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Healthy Heart Living & Risk Reduction, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast
When the Heart Speaks Louder Than the Habit It’s a moment you never forget. The monitor beeping, the doctor’s words landing with quiet precision, the sudden realisation that life as you knew it has changed. For many people, that heart attack or cardiac arrest is the...
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 | Jun 2, 2025 | Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast, Symptoms, Monitoring & Knowing When to Get Help, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
Pumphead, or Postperfusion Syndrome to give its scientific name, may or may not have been something you have heard of, let alone experienced. Some of you may be thinking it sounds like part of a car! However, for many, the post-op brain fog is very real. Doctors...
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...
