• Supporting Young Hearts - Your diagnosis, identity and the future

  • Apr 23 2021
  • Length: 29 mins
  • Podcast

Supporting Young Hearts - Your diagnosis, identity and the future

  • Summary

  • Being diagnosed with a heart condition can make you reflect on your identity and what your new future could look like.

    In this episode our host clinical psychologist Carlye Weiner talks to Dr Geoff Lester and Ange Foster about how they dealt with a heart diagnosis at a young age and how this affected their futures in very different ways.

    Useful links to support you:

    If this episode has brought up any upsetting or distressing feelings, please reach out to your health care provider or contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.

    To talk through any of your heart health questions or find out more about our programs, call the heart foundation’s helpline on 13 11 12, or visit http://www.heartfoundation.org.au

    The Heart Foundation’s Supporting Young Hearts program is a peer support initiative helping to support and connect younger people, aged 18 to 45 years, who are living with a heart condition or recovering from heart surgery.

    Find out more about Supporting Young Hearts program - https://www.heartfoundation.org.au/programs/supporting-young-hearts

    Join the Supporting Young Heart Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/supportingyounghearts/

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