Carolyn Thomas 
Heart Sisters (on Blue Sky)
This week, a fascinating guest post about what we know as Old Wives’ Tales – those superstitious traditions believed to be passed down by older women to younger women. Dr. Scott Lear, a professor in the Health Sciences faculty at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University, fact-checks four traditional Tales for us today. Do you have a favourite old wives’ (or young wives’) Tale that you grew up with? Continue reading “Old Wives’ Tales: Fact or Fiction”
by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
It was 10 a.m. sharp when I walked into the gym where my cardiac rehabilitation classes were about to begin. The group’s coordinator was a friendly former cardiac nurse who now spent her mornings with freshly-diagnosed heart patients in the rehab program. She greeted me warmly, and toured me around the facility, introducing me to my fellow cardiac rehab buddies. And “fellow” was the apt word: it turned out that in that particular class, I was the only female heart patient in a gym filled with men. Old men. Old men who all happened to be golfers – which I would soon learn was the sole topic of their conversations. My initial reaction was: “Do I belong here?” . . Continue reading ““Do I belong here?” Unintended barriers to cardiac rehabilitation”
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