The Healthy Heart Blog | Finding tools for a healthy heart!!!

Think about the times in your life when you’ve felt stress: maybe while giving a presentation at work, worrying about your children, racing to meet a deadline or arguing with your spouse. Remember how your heart was pounding and you were breathing harder? People with heart failure need to avoid that kind of physical response […]

The new year has arrived, just a couple more days and it will be the realization that resolutions may have been too much for all at once….. stress time.

In addition to dealing with stress we who have heart disease need to move forward. The anxiety we feel only adds to our problem, so we have […]

One of the major worries that I had, and sometimes have, is the financial aftermath of heart illness. Knowing that stress is a large factor in the recovery from any heart disease, how in the world do I not worry about the financial responsibility I have encountered with the onset of my disease? If I knew the […]

 This is family time, when we are all supposed to get in the same direction and pull together. If their are two workers in the family and they work for different companies,—there is pressure to be at two holiday parties (maybe scheduled for the same night). If you’re the boss, what is the proper bonus, can I […]

There are some risk factors I can change, and I need to work on those—my focus should be on those things I can change and not on what I canot change. 
Lets look first at what we are unable to change, then we can identify the alterable risk items.
I can’t change the aging process, and I am not sure […]

The line about “THEM>>>” coming to take you away is not far from wrong some days it seems. Then there are the days I wish they would just come on and get it done! But, who are they anyway? They are the members of that uninvited and unwanted committee in my head that gets in the […]

The diagnosis is set in my mind, and my well being is once again important to me … what is the next step?
Take a look at the entire  situation, and get over the fear and anxiety that add to my stress level….get over it and go on!!!
Money…..will there be enough? Will I have any earning capacity? I haven’t planned for this….Will […]

Ever hear the words “your days are numbered and you had better get things in order”, and something totally different was said? Well that is exactly what I heard over 2 years ago. What the doctor was really saying was this-”You have a condition that is serious, however; with some lifestyle changes, some effort on […]

Stress is a contributor to all types of illness, especially heart problems. There have been many studies related to stress and heart disease, immune deficiency, and other maladies that touch many lives. So what about stress and the heart patient, the stress of having a heart ailment in combination with the stress that may have […]

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Conrad Hilton
The GoalsGuy