What is Angina? Coronary arteries supply blood to the heart muscle. Like all other tissues in the body, the heart muscle needs oxygen-rich blood to function. Any coronary artery disorder or disease can have serious implications by reducing the flow of oxygen and nutrients to the heart muscle. This blockage causes pain in the chest. Angina is not a heart attack. It...
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Perception Is Reality Cognitive Restructuring provides a way to control your thinking, so stressful events and circumstances don’t automatically trigger a stressful response. A famous psychologist, Dr. Albert Ellis described a simple way for you to understand and remember how you irrationally react to events and situations. A + B = C A = activating event B = our...
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Women with heart risk | Harvard Gazette Heart disease is the leading cause of death in women in the United States, deadlier than all forms of cancer combined. To make matters worse, in women the symptoms of cardiovascular disease may present differently than in men, and both treatments and risk factors may differ as well. The good news is that up to 90 percent of...
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Rapid Stress Buster! A heart attack is a major trauma to the body, which results in a wide range of emotions one feels after such a traumatic heart event. For some the feeling may be more intense, while, for other people, it may not. Common feelings after a heart attack are worried, Anxiety, Anger, denial, etc. These thought and emotions can impact you physically...
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Heart Attack Mind-body connection, Stress Response Did you know that your reaction to stress can make you seriously sick and shorten your life? “If you ask what the single most important key to longevity is, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it.” -George Burns Many...
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Toxic Thoughts That Impact Your Health and Your Recovery watch the short video: A heart attack is a major trauma to the body, which results in a wide range of emotions one feels after such a traumatic heart event. For some the feeling may be more intense, while, for other people, it may not. Common feelings after a heart attack are worried, Anxiety, Anger, denial,...
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