For the more than eight million women dealing with the emotional impact of heart disease, an empowering guide to living with renewed confidence and hope.

After undergoing emergency bypass surgery at age forty-two, Kathy Kastan found her world shifting in unexpected ways. Everything-her sense of well being, her relationships, her daily routine, even her body image-seemed to change. Doctors could help her recover physically, but she had to find new ways to recover emotionally and re-create a happy, healthy life.

The first book written for women dealing with the emotional repercussions of heart disease, From the Heart addresses such questions as: How do you regain a strong self-image? Grapple with your fears? Talk to the people you love about your illness? Learn to trust your body again? Combining Kastan's personal experience and expertise as a therapist with stories from scores of other women with heart disease, this invaluable resource will help women reduce stress, give up hard-to-break habits, adapt to new lifestyles - and thrive again.

From the Heart contains personal accounts from over 100 of WomenHeart's patient members and includes contributions from several members of WomenHeart's Advisory Board. The forward was written by Nanette Wenger, MD of Emory University School of Medicine.

"Physical recovery from a coronary event often comes before emotional recovery. Kathy Kastan shares the journey back from the loss of self to the rediscovery and renewal that heart patients can ultimately experience. From the Heart is an invaluable contribution to the literature on healing women's hearts-and should be spectacularly helpful to women heart patients."
- Nanette Wenger, MD

Copies of From the Heart can be purchased from WomenHeart's online store for $25. A portion of all proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to WomenHeart.

Kathy Kastan, MSW, MAEd, is the President of WomenHeart's Board of Directors.