Learn about the programs and services associated with Mended Hearts as well as information on how to live a healthy life.
Join us now. Call (713) 222-CARE (2273) to enroll in The Woodlands Mended Hearts.
Programs and Services
Group Meetings
- Support Groups. After diagnosis, treatment or surgery for heart disease, patients and families have serious concerns and strong feelings – often questioning why they became ill and how to prevent future problems. That’s why Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Mended Hearts offers monthly group meetings where heart patients and families support one another.
- Health Information Workshops. Various healthcare professionals provide valuable information and answer questions at chapter meetings.
Visiting Program
Mended Hearts offers hope, support, inspiration and information to those impacted by heart disease. Our volunteers draw upon their own personal experiences and help the patient begin to understand there can be a healthy, active life with heart disease.
Internet Visiting Program
Our trained volunteers offer online support, answer questions and concerns of heart patients and families, as well as help locate resources. If you would like to talk to a volunteer about your condition and concerns, please visit www.mendedhearts.org.
1-800 Help Line
Mended Hearts also supports patients through the toll-free help line 1-888-HEART99 (1-888-432-7899).
Healthy Living
Living with heart disease is a challenge, but reducing your risk of a heart event doesn’t have to be! Mended Hearts provides you with the tools you need to be successful in your road to recovery, including how to:
- Eat heart healthy
- Follow an appropriate exercise program
- Eliminate all tobacco products
- Learn strategies for remembering to take your medicine
- Make a healthy diet and regular physical activity a priority
Stress
You can’t remove all stress from your life, but you can decide how you will respond to it. The goal is to recognize stressors and learn how to deal with them. Mended Hearts will teach you coping resources, including relaxation, selfsatisfaction and problem solving in order to better manage stress.
Change
You probably know it’s time to start eating “heart healthy,” to exercise and to not smoke. But change isn’t something that just happens in one simple step. It’s a process. The better you understand it, the more you can adopt. With Mended Hearts, you will learn strategies to guide you through the seven phases of change:
| Phase 1 |
You’re not thinking about change anytime soon |
| Phase 2 |
You’re open to change, but you haven’t yet committed. Those who are ambivalent can be stuck for years. You’re just not ready to act. |
| Phase 3 |
You’re getting ready and committed to act in the next month. You have a plan or have tried the new behavior. |
| Phase 4 |
You’re starting to implement your plan. But it’s not entrenched in your behavior yet. You’re still ambivalent. You repeat the decision about the behavior change over and over again. |
| Phase 5 |
You’re establishing the new behavior and the threat of relapse is becoming less frequent and less intense (takes 4-5 years in the natural environment). |
| Phase 6 |
You’re free from the problem behavior and you’re not tempted to return to it. You’re confident that you can cope when you’re distressed. |
| Phase 7 |
You have returned to a specific behavior after a period of abstinence. Relapse is commonly related to a powerful emotional event – negative or positive. |
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