posts here focus on the “new normal” you’ll discover once you get home from hospital and the reality starts to sink in
by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
It was such a pleasure to be invited to do this February interview with award-winning pharmacist and brilliant science communicator Lindsay Dixon – our second Heart Month chat together for her Friendly Pharmacy 5 YouTube channel. . Continue reading “Heart Month 2024: my interview with Lindsay Dixon”
by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
In 2017, Margareta Magnusson, a Swedish artist who describes herself as being “somewhere between 80 and 100,” wrote a best-selling book called The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter
She explores a Scandinavian concept in which you work on eliminating unnecessary items from your home so that your loved ones won’t be burdened with those tasks after you die. And she urges everybody 65 and older to get started on this process of shedding possessions.
It’s not imminent death that has prompted my recent interest in reducing clutter. This spring, I’m selling the tiny perfect 1-bedroom apartment I’ve loved for 17 years. And although pre-move sorting, packing and cleaning would be most heart patients’ idea of pure torture, I’m so surprised to discover how much I’ve been enjoying the immediate before-and-after results so far. . Continue reading “Swedish death cleaning isn’t only about death”
by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
“Baby, it’s cold outside . .🎵” Even here on the typically balmy west coast of Canada (where our brave daffodils valiantly poke through winter soil each January), we’ve had snow and freezing rain this month. But cold weather can feel even worse for those of us living with angina (from the Latin, “strangling in the chest”) which is the chest pain linked to coronary heart disease). Here’s why: . Continue reading “Cold weather = worse angina symptoms!”
by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
In the last half of the last century when I was working in corporate public relations, I was invited to speak at a marketing conference for female entrepreneurs in the city of Kamloops, B.C.
During my 45-minute presentation, the audience response was terrific – lots of nodding and smiling throughout, and several thoughtful questions at the end – all clues that signal a speaker’s messages are landing as planned. On the plane heading home to Victoria from Kamloops after the conference, I pulled out the pile of audience feedback forms that I’d been given (old school: hand-written!) and I settled back in my seat to read them during my flight. One after another, the reviews were so nice. (One woman even wrote: “I want to marry Carolyn Thomas!”) The last review I read, however, was one that stopped me cold: .
Continue reading ““Did that go okay?” How to tell if your message is landing”
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