by | | ✈️ Lifestyle & Travel, 📌 Tools & Printables, 🥦 Heart-Healthy Nutrition
If you’ve had a heart attack or are living with heart disease, you already know: what you eat matters. A lot. But eating for your heart doesn’t mean living on lettuce or giving up flavour. In fact, it can be colourful, comforting, and incredibly satisfying. This...
by | | 📣 Tough Love & Wake-Up Calls, 🔴 Recovery & Rehabilitation, 🧠 Mindset & Mental Health
Let’s get one thing straight from the start: recovering after a heart attack isn’t some perfect, uphill climb to glory. It’s messy. It’s frustrating. It’s confusing. One day you feel like you’ve got your life back, the next you’re breathless after walking up the...
by | | 💊 Medications & Medical Management, 📌 Tools & Printables, 🔴 Recovery & Rehabilitation
When I had my heart attack, I didn’t see it coming. Like many people, I’d ignored the little signs—the occasional shortness of breath, a tiredness I chalked up to age, the few too many indulgent meals, and a calendar too full to allow rest. I was “busy, not sick.”...
by | | 💊 Medications & Medical Management, 📌 Tools & Printables, 🔴 Recovery & Rehabilitation
In an age where every aspect of our lives seems to require a smartphone app, it might surprise you to learn that I track my blood pressure, weight, and cholesterol without using one. No app downloads, no forgotten passwords, no annoying notifications—just a...
by | | 📣 Tough Love & Wake-Up Calls, 🔴 Recovery & Rehabilitation, 🧠 Mindset & Mental Health
When I was wheeled out of the hospital after my heart attack, I thought the hardest part was over. I was wrong. Sure, the immediate danger had passed. The doctors had done their part—cleared the blockage, stabilised me, and put me on the necessary meds. But as I sat...
