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Love, Intimacy & Sex after a Heart Attack or Surgery
Discover how to safely reconnect with your partner after a heart attack or surgery. Learn tips for intimacy, love, and sexual health, plus ways to rebuild confidence and closeness in your relationship.
Ejection Fraction (EF) and Your Heart
Here’s a useful way to think about ejection fraction: it’s simply a measure of how much blood your heart is able to squeeze out with each beat.
Living with a Healthy Heart and a Happy Brain
Cortisol & Adrenaline and Dopamine, Serotonin, Endorphins & Oxytocin, and the role they play in keeping you safe and happy. You can live your life happy after a heart attack or heart surgery.
Can you Drink Alcohol with Heart Disease?
When you’ve had a heart attack, surgery or a cardiac diagnosis, questions inevitably pour in: Has my drinking contributed to my condition? Do I have to stop altogether?
Self Care After a Cardiac Event isn’t Selfish
Consider self care after a cardiac event in the same way you would when you are instructed to put the oxygen mask on yourself first before helping others when on a plane.
Relaxamation – I have the Right to Be Happy
You’ll be gently guided through a soothing body relaxation, followed by a powerful affirmation: “I have the right to be happy.”
A Self-Soothing Toolbox for your Heart & Mind Health
A self-soothe toolbox is something that is individual to you and is your emergency kit when the worry, stress, and anxiety kick in.
Coming Home: What the Early Months After a Heart Attack Really Feel Like
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?
From Trauma to Triumph – Embracing Post-Traumatic Growth After a Heart Event
So, how do you even think about this horrible event as being something that can change your life in a positive way? Even make you a better and wiser person?
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