Your Heart and You: a Holistic Guide to a Healthier Heart explores how both physical and emotional issues affect your heart. The book is packed with self-help exercises and information – how the heart works; how to cope and recover from problems such as angina and heart attacks; tests, surgery and what to expect in hospital; the link between your emotions and the physical reactions of your heart; strategies for reducing stress and coping with heart disease. This book addresses the understanding and care of the heart as a central physical organ as well as the heart of our poetic imaginations – the emotional, ‘feeling’ heart. It explores how the two are linked, why understanding this link is important and how we might build a bridge between the two. Coming from two different but complementary professional disciplines – psychotherapy and cardiology – we have woven our clinical knowledge and experience together in support of this bridge. The book explores the following areas by helping you to understand the links between stress, emotions and your heart, empowering you to take charge of the care of your heart in the ways most suited to your personality and emotional need, getting across accurate medical information so that you can gain the confidence to make informed decisions, demystifying and detoxifying some of the powerful and unhelpful myths that surround heart problems and sharing stories from heart patients so that you can relate to their experiences.

Authors: Elizabeth Wilde McCormick and Dr Leisa Freeman
Publishers: Piatkus
Date of Publication: 2002
No. of pages: 260