From the Heart: A Woman’s Guide to Living Well with Heart Disease
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After undergoing emergency bypass surgery at age forty-two, Kathy Kastan found her world shifting in unexpected ways. Everything-her sense of well being, her relationships, her daily routine, even her body image-seemed to change. Doctors could help her recover physically, but she had to find new ways to recover emotionally and re-create a happy, healthy life. The first book written for women dealing with the emotional repercussions of heart disease, From the Heart will guide women forward with optimism and courage, addressing such questions as: How do you regain a strong self-image? Grapple with your fears? Talk to the people you love about your illness? And learn to trust your body again? Combining Kastan’s personal experience and expertise as a therapist with stories from scores of other women with heart disease, this invaluable resource will help women reduce stress, give up hard-to- break habits, adapt to new lifestyles-and thrive again.
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
Publication date : March 12, 2007
Edition : 1st
Language : English
Print length : 288 pages
ISBN-10 : 0738210935
ISBN-13 : 978-0738210933
Item Weight : 1.1 pounds
Dimensions : 6.25 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #2,153,127 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1,233 in Heart Disease (Books) #4,517 in General Women’s Health #142,204 in Biographies (Books)
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MimTwo3Boys –
More than a “Woman’s Guide” to living well! For anyone that co-exists with women living with heart disease
First I will say that I needed this book 7 years ago when I felt like I was the only woman in the world facing life after a heart attack. I searched every resource available and thought that I had faced all the demons of emotions that comes along with heart disease. Wrong!After reading Kathy Kastan’s book, I now realize that there are some areas of my emotions that I have put on a shelf and not addressed. I am now prepared with the help of this book to complete my quest for “Living Well with this Heart Disease” and to conquer those demons of fear, doubt and anger. So whether you are a newly diagnosed heart disease patient or have lived with it for many years, this book is a Godsend.I will finish with this, I have suggested this book to my cardiologist to read so that he will be more attune to what his female patients are experiencing. My hope that all professionals in the cardiac healthcare industry including the doctors and cardiac rehab personnel will read and use this book as a learning tool as they meet each of us, “The Women that have chose to Live Well” with heart disease.
Diana L. Bangert –
This is the book I would recommend above all others. Diana Bangert NNP Retired.
I bought this book years ago after I was diagnosed in 2008 with cardiac microvascular disease.Then WOMENS heart disease wasn’t as studied, fully diagnosed, or appropriately treatedIn 2024 much has improved but recognition diagnosis and treatment, still are challenging to provide women the outcomes they need. Then,too many women’s symptoms remained underdiagnosed and undertreated if at all. This caused much emotion pain and anguish in patients. While I still suffer from trauma of being undiagnosed and undertreated, today, I am most grateful not only for the improved personal and professional treatment by staff. Kathy Kastan ‘s book provided an excellent explanation of heart disease, advise needed in terms of health modifications , and very importantly gave the encouragement and understanding a woman needed to deal with this life alternating condition.
Anonymous –
great perspective and reassuring advice
This book is a caring, supportive look at heart “occurences,” but it is just as useful for women facing other critical illnesses.
Tina Bradford –
Nothing left to add!!
Since all my heart events I have read scores of books on women and heart disease. (Fortunately there ARE such books now as opposed to sev. yrs. ago when NO information could be found). But this book by Kathy Kastan absolutely says it ALL!One of the worst parts of heart disease is the aftermath–coming home from the hospital feeling totally isolated, without information, and wondering if you’ll ever be normal again…And what IS normal? “No clue”, if you’re like most women after heart problems. Kathy’s book addresses all those issues that you need IMMEDIATELY! (Hospitals might just skip all those discharge papers and ‘pats on the head’…just issue this book when folks go home.)If I had to use one word to sum up the value of this book, I’d have to say PRACTICAL….imminently practical!!! I did not get 1/3 of the way through before I started over with yellow highlighter in hand. I’d thought after nearly 3 yrs and lots of study, that I had a handle on my new normal. But I got no farther than that “wunnerful” practical list on page 7 before I adopted even more ‘new’ practices–things that will help me thrive with this disease that afflicts 8 million of us U.S. women.Even if you don’t have heart disease, get this book for someone you know and love whose heart will be helped because of it.Thanks Kathy..Tina Bradford…Mississippi
Phantastic –
I was somewhat disappointed
I was somewhat disappointed by this book. For example, there was an entire chapter on weight loss and a heart healthy diet which contained this quote, “Good nutrition pratices are the cornerstone for prevention and treatment of heart disease”. I am 117 pounds and 5’5″ tall. I have NEVER been overweight in my life, and I eat a good, healthy diet. I also have very severe CAD due to my unmedicated cholesterol being over 400. I have been taking statins since they were invented but have spent of my life unmedicated (since birth). Some of us have genetic problems that cause our cholesterol to be greatly elevated and develop CAD because of it. I wish that the author had mentioned that too.
Nana Rose –
A book for all “Heart Sisters” and those who love them.
“From The Heart” by Kathy Kastan, arrived today. This book brought tears of what the author and so many women have had to endure, battling heart disease.The author focuses on the steps of dealing with heart disease. From, the diagnosis (often delayed) to the shock, to denial, to healing both physically and emotionally and learning to live well with heart disease. This book is a must for all women suffering with heart problems, those who love them and for physicians who treat these women.Thank You, Ms. Kastan for “From the Heart, A Woman’s Guide to Living Well with Heart Disease”. HD stalks all ages, races and creeds. It shows no mercy but we will prevail and win the war on heart disease in women.God Bless You.Mary RoseSugar Land,Texas
Amazon Customer –
It’s not as I expected or hoped it would be. I hoped it would at least touch on the subject of living with coronary microvascular dysfunction for which there is no treatment other than medication……and the GTN spray doesn’t work for some people with the variant angina which is part of the disease. so it was rather disappointing in that respect.Also I thought she went into a bit too much detail with advice on sex for the sufferer! I think we can all work that out for ourselves!