About this episode

The episode discusses the emotional challenges and the permission to grieve after experiencing a cardiac event.

Have you found yourself crying unexpectedly since your heart attack, heart surgery, cardiac arrest or cardiac diagnosis? Perhaps the tears arrive when someone asks how you are, when a hospital letter comes through the door, when you look at your scar or when you realise how much your life has changed. You may even feel that you should be grateful, positive or simply pleased to be alive. But gratitude does not cancel out grief. You can feel fortunate to have survived and still feel sad about w...

People in this episode

Host: Sallie Crawley

Topics covered

• emotional healing
• grief
• heart health
• cardiac event
• mental wellness

Keywords

• crying
• heart attack
• heart surgery
• emotional healing
• grief
• mental health
• cardiac diagnosis

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