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  Thriving with Heart Disease

Since 1979, Wayne Sotile has served as Director of Psychological Services for the Wake Forest University Cardiac Rehabilitation Program. This position has given him the privilege of working with thousands of heart patients and their families. What he has learned from these courageous people is that, while no one welcomes heart illness, the truth is that, far and away, most heart patients and their families learn to live quite successfully with their illness.

Dr. Sotile's Tips for Thriving with Heart Disease
How You Cope Can Save Your Life
Your Relationahip with Your Doctor-Part 1. Why Is It Important?
Your Relationahip with Your Doctor-Part 2. You Get to Choose
Your Relationahip with Your Doctor-Part 3. Managing Your Healthcare Team
Women Heart Patients: Special Coping Challenges
What is Cardiac Rehabilitation?
When a Child Has Heart Disease
What About Sex?
How Much Exercise is Enough?
Personality & Coping: What Drives You?
Questions & Answers

  

Dr. Wayne Sotile - LIVE DVD

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New book    

Thriving With Heart Disease

Why do some heart disease patients recover and lead long, robust lives, while others wither and live like invalids? The answer lies in how people deal with the emotional ravages of the illness.


"Thankfully, Dr. Wayne Sotile has written the definitive guide for transforming heart disease and making sure you don't become a statistic. Here is a book that you, your heart, and your family will love."
-Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause


"In Thriving With Heart Disease, Dr. Wayne Sotile has identified an important fact: for many heart patients, their coping attitudes, not the severity of the disease, may determine how long they will live and how happy they will be. Highly recommended."
-Dean Ornish, M.D., best-selling author and Director, Preventive Medicine Research Institute


"Dr. Sotile is one of the world's brightest and most personable psychologists. His advice and recommendations will help all individuals with cardiovascular disease, as well as those who are at risk of developing heart disease."
-Gordon A. Ewy, MD, Professor and Chief, Cardiology Director, University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center


"Dr. Sotile is, without question, this country's leading authority on the psychological, emotional, and relationship effects of making it through heart disease. For patients with heart disease and those who care about and for them, this book is a must read."
-Harry Croft, MD, Medical Director and Founder of The San Antonio Psychiatric Research Center


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