Most patients and families recover from the physical effects of a cardiac event, but they face long-term  life changes that accompany living with heart disease. You, the heartmate, need and deserve acknowledgement and comfort, support and information to care for yourself and your family.

If someone you love has heart disease, you'll want the resources Heartmates has created for you:

BOOKS for HEARTMATES

Heartmates, A Guide for the Spouse and Family of the Heart Patient helps you and your family understand and cope with the changes in your lives and relationships after a cardiac event. See Table of Contents , readers' responses and excerpts
Buy NOW 1-800-544-8207  for a 20% discount plus FREE shipping, or online at Amazon.com. 

The Heartmates Journal, A Companion for Partners of People with Serious Illness a full year's interactive guide to recovery. Read reviews and excerpts from sections about early, mid and late recovery.
Buy NOW 1-800-544-8207 -20% discount plus FREE shipping, or online at Amazon.com. 

RESOURCES on this WEB SITE

Visit the Life-Legacies web site to find out about the healing resources for women created by your Heartmates founder, Rachael Freed. Reclaim the legacies of your ancestors, tell your story, and communicate your wisdom to future generations. FREE

10 Healthy Hints for the Partner of a Patient
This newly-revised self-care guide is available for FREE to download or you can email us for a copy.
 

Portrait of the Heartmate
an award-winning video series of five programs. Hear real doctors, nurses and heartmates about what to expect, managing change, communicating, changing life-styles and family concerns.

10 Healthy Hints
Our most popular recovery aid highlighting self-care for spouses and caregivers...proven helpful as an introduction for meeting cardiac families members, as an insertion in the package of hospital take-home educational materials, a perfect aid for the "teachable moment," or simply frame for display in cardiac rehab and social work departments, in cath lab,surgical waiting rooms, in ICU, and CCU.

The Cardiac Family Recovery Program Training Manual
for professional facilitators and administrators. Click your mouse for more information and to view Table of Contents and to read excerpts.

Speaking and Training
with Rachael Freed, a heartmate herself, a clinical social worker, and a pioneer in family care. She has trained professionals in over 100 hospitals and health care systems in the US, Canada, and Israel. She has inspired thousands of cardiac families to live with hope and to find meaning in every precious day.

. . . the only site on the web dedicated to supporting spouses, families and loved ones of heart patients

. . . Please take time to explore this site . . . we hope it meets your needs!

Inspiration:

"In today's sharp sparkle, this winter air, anything can be made, any sentence begun. On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp - praise song"

  - Inaugural Poem   January 20, 2009
   by Elizabeth Alexander

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

       - Maya Angelou

NEW!!!

...A web site devoted to healing through LEGACY. Claim your history, tell your story, pass on your blessings to future generations. ...and prepare your LIVING WILL through the lens of legacy.