Foreward

Everyone who has survived a heart attack has many questions about what can be done to regain a strong sense of health, and have a vibrant life. But who is there every day to give you real answers? After a heart attack, your whole life changes forever. You realize that you now have new mental physical and emotional challenges to conquer. At times, you feel as though you are scaling a high wall of apprehension and fear. Some days, you'll battle mountainous anger as you ask yourself why a heart attack had to happen to you. You'll experience confusion as your mind races to sort out conflicting information about what to do to reduce your risk of a future heart attack. This book is about conquering the self-inflicted "mind games" that will try to ensnare you and finding fast actionable answers to your most pressing questions. Here you will find sensible solutions for making changes that will help you live a balanced, happy and long life.

Brad Henson wrote this book to remind you that you're not alone. Brad successfully survived a heart attack at age 35. He had been a corporate guerilla fighter, battling lethal opposition in his own self-induced version of a corporate war. Brad unknowingly allowed stress, overwork, and mental as well as emotional life imbalance to take their toll on him. The day Brad had a heart attack was the day he became a casualty in the very corporate war in which he fought hard to gain recognition. On that day, Brad lay alone in an emergency room as he was brought back to life with not one of his fellow corporate soldiers by his side. From that day forward, Brad began learning how to make what he later called simple "Heart Attack Survivor Life-Changes" the result of a two-decade search for real-life answers. This book is the fruit of Brad's hunt to rebuild a better, more fulfilling life than before his heart attack. Heart Attack Survivor - a field guide gives you solid answers to practical questions based on an every day approach to medical, psychological, nutritional, and other profound multi-discipline-based principles. Now in his 50s, Brad enjoys a fun, enriching, purposeful, energetic, and confident life - a life he has created using the fundamentals he has distilled in the contents of this book.

If your heart attack occurred recently, Heart Attack Survivor -a field guide, will become your constant companion. As you read this book, you will learn new things about yourself, personality type, and life patterns that you have unknowingly developed, which increase your risk of a heart attack. You will realize that now is the time to consider making some wonderfully radical changes in thought and action to save your life and make it better. It is time to learn from those who have been where you are now and have successfully conquered to move from "heart attack survivors" to "whole life thrivers."

Allen D' Angelo

Archer-Ellison, January 2002