Finding Information & Cardiac Rehab – Barbara

 

Barbara talks about diet, exercise, and keeping positive.

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I quit smoking right away. I attended rehab within a month. I started to exercise and used my breath properly, right, and I started to recognize when my heart was beating too hard when – because as soon as my heart starts beating too hard, I can feel it in my neck and that’s my cue to – to sit down and recover, if you will.  So diet, exercise and positive thinking using mindfulness. We had a CBT – a cognitive behavioural course, CBT, therapy; cognitive behavioural therapy, and I used a lot of that education that I got there and I went full circle into mindfulness. So diet, exercise and keeping my thoughts positive; those were the three things that really turned things around. My life became about me.


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