by Sallie Crawley | Jan 25, 2025 | Confidence, Acceptance & Moving Forward, Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast, Relationships, Family, Carers & Intimacy
I’m not sure about you, does your heart attack or heart surgery consume your life? Is your heart health at the centre of everything that you do or think? If the impact of your heart surgery, heart attack or cardiac arrest has affected your mental and emotional...
by Sallie Crawley | Oct 24, 2024 | Confidence, Acceptance & Moving Forward, Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Podcast, Stories & Inspiration, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
Today’s Podcast Episode is going to be rather different; it’s going to be a fictional story. It’s a story of someone that had a heart attack although it’s founded in a true story. It’s the first story that I have found that is fictional about having a cardiac...
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...
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 | Oct 13, 2022 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery
Feeling emotional after a heart attack, surgery, or cardiac arrest? I’m sure, whilst you are reading this, you may be feeling as though you can’t see an ending to this anxiety and worry. You may even think it’s pointless trying. You may have started...
