Learning to Listen to Yourself: Women's Heart Health, Grief, and Finding Your Voice
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RSS Feed How often do we ignore what our bodies are trying to tell us? Or that quiet inner voice that says something isn't right, that we need help, or that something in our lives has to change?
We get busy. We push through. We explain things away. And sometimes, we're so accustomed to taking care of everyone else that we forget to pay attention to ourselves.
My guest, Caron Grossman, knows firsthand what it means to navigate the unexpected. A registered nurse, TEDx speaker, storyteller, breathwork facilitator, and author of Listen to Your Heart Song: Navigating the Unexpected, Caron lost her mother suddenly to a heart attack when she was just 13. Decades later, at 58, she survived a heart attack of her own.
Her experience brought the importance of understanding women's heart attack symptoms into sharp focus, but her story reaches well beyond heart health.
We talk about grief, food and alcohol addiction, recovery, and the ways we sometimes try to manage pain without really addressing what's underneath it. We also explore why women can struggle to advocate for themselves, how difficult it can be to distinguish intuition from fear, and what it takes to trust our own instincts.
It's a conversation about recognizing the signals we often ignore, finding our voice, and having the courage to take that next step when we know something needs to change.
Because sometimes the most important thing we can do is stop, listen, and trust what we're hearing.
In this episode, we explore:
- Why women's heart attack symptoms can differ from what we typically expect.
- Caron's experience losing her mother to a heart attack and surviving one herself.
- The connection between grief, addiction, and the ways we cope with emotional pain.
- Giving ourselves permission to grieve and allowing healing to happen in its own time.
- Learning to distinguish intuition from fear.
- Why self-advocacy matters in our health and in our everyday lives.
- Reconnecting with ourselves when we've spent years putting everyone else first.
If you've ever had a feeling that something wasn't right but struggled to listen to it, I think you'll find something meaningful in this conversation.
Connect with Caron: https://www.carongrossman.com/
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