by Sallie Crawley | Aug 31, 2026 | Confidence, Acceptance & Moving Forward, Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Everyday Life, Work & Travel, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast
“Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.” – Thomas Dekker After a heart attack, heart surgery, cardiac arrest, or a diagnosis of heart disease, many people focus on medication, rehabilitation, exercise, and diet. All of these...
by Sallie Crawley | Aug 3, 2026 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast, Relationships, Family, Carers & Intimacy, Symptoms, Monitoring & Knowing When to Get Help, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery
Have you ever found yourself wondering, “Is it normal to feel like this?” Perhaps you’ve had a heart attack, heart surgery, a cardiac arrest, or received a cardiac diagnosis, and since then, you’ve been feeling anxious; maybe frightened,...
by Sallie Crawley | May 11, 2026 | Confidence, Acceptance & Moving Forward, Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Therapies, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
The fear of mortality is something most humans brush up against at some point in their lives. Usually, it’s fleeting, a passing thought late at night or after a loss. But when you’ve had a cardiac arrest, an implantable device, heart attack, or cardiac surgery,...
by Sallie Crawley | Jun 9, 2025 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast, Symptoms, Monitoring & Knowing When to Get Help, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
Can a heart attack, cardiac arrest or open heart surgery cause trauma or PTSD? The quick answer to this is, YES of course it can. Many people, like you and I, experience trauma when they are diagnosed with chronic health conditions like heart disease, cancer, MS,...
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...
