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 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 | Jul 28, 2025 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Everyday Life, Work & Travel, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast, Relationships, Family, Carers & Intimacy, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
Something that I get asked quite often is “What happens and how will I feel in the first few weeks and months after leaving the hospital following heart surgery or a heart attack?” A question that most people will have running through their minds at some point after a...
by Sallie Crawley | Jul 21, 2025 | Confidence, Acceptance & Moving Forward, Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Podcast
Having a heart condition, experiencing a heart attack, having heart surgery or going through a cardiac arrest is a life-changing event. There’s no denying that. It’s not a walk in the park and may feel like one of the worst things that have happened to you. Some...
by Sallie Crawley | Jun 23, 2025 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Podcast, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
When I think back to how I felt when I first came out of the hospital following my heart attack, I don’t think I realised at the time that I was going through one of the first stages of grief. I was on the emotional roller coaster ride of heart attack recovery....
