Being Empowered for a Healthy Heart: A personal guide to taking control of your health while living with chronic conditions - Paperback

by Phoebe Chi Mph (Author)

Be empowered to take control of your chronic conditions

★ Living with a chronic illness can feel like a constant battle. Conditions such as high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, COPD, and depression not only require vigilant management, but they can negatively affect your day-to-day functioning and deprive you of the quality of life you deserve.

★ This guide is designed to equip you with the tools you need to overcome the symptoms of pain, fatigue, shortness of breath, anxiety, and stress while effectively managing and reversing the diseases that cause them. By encouraging you to create personal healthy living goals and then providing valuable tools to help you achieve them, this guide will give you the confidence you need to take control of your health.

★ Become empowered in the self-management of your chronic conditions, with each chapter containing practical exercises and personal health trackers to help you better monitor and manage your symptoms and conditions.

★ Be inspired and revitalized as Dr. Chi takes you on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment through a combination of essential health information and original poetry -a unique fusion that will both strengthen the body and touch the soul.

-TOPICS COVERED-
✔ Getting the most out of your healthcare visits
✔ Health goal-setting for success
✔ Managing medications
✔ Heart-healthy eating
✔ Exercising with heart conditions
✔ Angina (chest pain)
✔ High blood pressure
✔ Type 2 Diabetes
✔ Heart failure
✔ Chronic pain
✔ COPD/Asthma
✔ Stress management
✔ Heartburn
✔ Insomnia and sleeping problems
✔ Depression and anxiety
✔ Tobacco and smoking cessation
✔ Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)

Author Biography

Phoebe Chi, MD, MPH is an internal medicine and public health physician whose humanitarian efforts have spanned from the regions of Central America to that of sub-Saharan Africa. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and received her medical training, public health, and global health degrees from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the University of North Texas Health Science Center. She currently serves as the Director of Clinical Education at Legacy Heart Care of Texas for which she developed a comprehensive chronic disease management program aimed at improving the quality of life and well-being of those living with heart and related chronic conditions. When she is not working or volunteering locally and abroad, Phoebe can be found writing for PhoebeMD.com, a health and poetry website.