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As Margaret and I prepare for our webinar on Heart Health, hosted by Heartfulness for Women’s GLOW program (Genuine, Loving, Outstanding Women), we are cognizant of our own pathways into heart health.

GLOW is a powerful webinar series put on by Heartfulness for Women.

As a medical doctor, Margaret was trained to focus on the heart as an organ. She was taught how to analyze symptoms and prescribe medication. When she evolved into a public health professional, she began to focus more on how lifestyle factors such as diet, exercise, and stress affect the heart. Now, she takes a preventive approach – come hear what that entails and how it changed her life completely.

I started off as an environmentalist, then a behavior change and climate change student, and as I was in my second half of graduate school I became an entrepreneur. My childhood, thanks to Mom, was filled with healthy food options, but I never made the connections between climate change and wellness. Until, that is, I began to see the benefits to human health of climate change mitigation behaviors through my collaborative research. This opened my path into wellness and transformed me from the inside out.

Fast forward to now, and Margaret and I have continued to learn so much from each other. Watch our webinar to learn what exactly we have learned and how we combined her medical expertise with my behavior change background to offer a holistic approach to heart health, and optimal wellness in general.

Five facts to keep in mind about heart health that we will go deeper into through the webinar are:

1. DIET: Gut health is related to mental health (as I shared last week), and mental health affects heart health. This makes diet a crucial factor for gut health, brain health, AND heart health.
2. EMOTIONS: Our emotions affect the heart in profound ways, so the root of our emotions are very important – these roots include trauma from abuse and other experiences, like war or accidents.
3. STRESS: How we handle and release stress is a huge factor in heart health. Our lifestyle choices, including our professional environment, can be pivotal in how well our heart is doing.
4. EXERCISE: How we move our bodies regularly for optimal health is important for a healthy heart. Our success with exercise has a lot to do with the factors outlined above – what we eat, our emotional state, and levels of stress.
5. CONNECTIONS: You guessed it. It’s all related, which is why a holistic approach is necessary for heart health, and wellness in general. Our food, exercise, work, stress management, and relationships all affect our heart health.

Join us for our GLOW webinar as we go deeper into the connections between heart health and lifestyle from medical and behavioral perspectives, and be sure to ask your questions!

We are excited to be tag teaming for a GLOW webinar on heart health and the medical and behavioral insights you should have in your back pocket.