About this episode

This episode explores the Both/And mindset as a compassionate approach to navigating the complexities of recovery after a cardiac event.

Have you ever felt grateful to be alive… and deeply anxious at the same time? Relieved your surgery is over… and frustrated that recovery feels slow? Motivated to change your lifestyle… and grieving your old one? If so, you are not doing recovery wrong. In this episode, we explore the powerful mindset shift of Both/And thinking — a compassionate way of allowing two truths to exist at the same time without judgment. After a cardiac event, many people fall into “either/or” thinking: I’m coping ...

People in this episode

Host: Sallie Crawley

Topics covered

• heart health recovery
• mindset shift
• Both/And thinking
• emotional wellness
• cardiac event coping

Keywords

• heart attack
• heart surgery
• recovery
• anxiety
• grief
• mindset
• wellness

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