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...
by Sallie Crawley | Sep 29, 2022 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
Is how you feel after a heart attack, cardiac event, or heart surgery normal? Suffering from anxiety, breathlessness, panic, sleeplessness, anger, loneliness, frustration, sadness, grief, or fear? All of these feelings are completely normal to experience during...
by Sallie Crawley | Mar 30, 2021 | Podcast, Relationships, Family, Carers & Intimacy, Stories & Inspiration, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
Ray Bishop was born with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome. This did not affect his quality of life until after he had developed coronary heart disease. This was after many misdiagnoses. He was lucky that as by this time, cardiac ablation could be carried out on him for...
by Sallie Crawley | Aug 12, 2020 | Confidence, Acceptance & Moving Forward, Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Everyday Life, Work & Travel, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast
Gaining confidence in life after a cardiac event. Having confidence is another mindset that is important during recovery after a heart-related health issue. I tell you about how gaining confidence with life after a cardiac event helps you get out of your own way of...
by Sallie Crawley | Jul 16, 2020 | Confidence, Acceptance & Moving Forward, Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Everyday Life, Work & Travel, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast
Finding acceptance when living with a heart condition. In this episode, I talk about acceptance and how having it contributes to emotional wellbeing after a cardiac event. You’ll learn why it is important to accept the situation, yourself, what was and what is, along...
