The book · Working title
Love Your Heart
What Every Woman Needs to Know to Live Stronger, Longer
Completed manuscript. The book is not yet for sale; publication details will be shared when confirmed.
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Understand your heart. Care for the life you love.
The energy to enjoy your day.
The strength to carry what matters.
A walk. A trip. Time with the people you love.
A better understanding of your body.
A next step that feels possible.
What do you want to feel well enough to keep doing? Love Your Heart begins with you: how you feel, what matters to you and the life you want to enjoy. It helps you understand your heart, bring your history and questions together, and work with your clinician on a plan that fits your life.
From pregnancy through midlife and the years ahead, the book explains changes in your body and offers practical ways to care for yourself. Begin with the questions that matter to you now. Pregnancy does not have to be part of your story. HEART RESERVE is the education platform behind the book.
Know your story. Build your reserve.
Build my Heart StoryInside the book
Understand your body. Find your next step.
The reader journey
My story opens the door. Yours guides what comes next.
The book begins with my complicated twin pregnancy and the questions I brought to a midlife checkup. Across eighteen chapters in four parts, it turns to you: build your Heart Story, bring it to your clinician, choose what to work on together, and return to see what changed.
You do not need to diagnose yourself or arrive with a list of tests. The question is: does knowing this change what we do next?
Read why I wrote the book- Part IThe Story Started Earlier
How pregnancy, menopause, symptoms and changes in blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar fit into your story.
- Part IIAsk the Right Heart Question
Blood flow, heartbeat, how the heart pumps, and what your body can do.
- Part IIIBuild the Reserve
Choose a priority and build a weekly routine you can keep, with time to recover.
- Part IVProve It
See whether the plan helped. Review it again when your health or daily life changes.
The 12-week HEART RESERVE Build
Choose what matters now. Make a plan you can follow.
The book closes with one or two priorities for the next twelve weeks, a realistic action, and a specific measure to revisit. Choose those priorities with your clinician and make the plan fit your life.
Twelve weeks gives you a place to begin. It does not guarantee a change in your health. You do not need to buy coaching, a workshop, or anything else to use the plan in the book.
See the twelve-week plan- Know your starting point.
- Choose a priority.
- Build consistently.
- See what changed.
- Decide what comes next.
FLOW / BEAT / PUMP / POWER
Four questions. A fuller picture of your heart.
- FLOW
- Can blood get where it needs to go?
- BEAT
- How is my heart beating?
- PUMP
- How is my heart built, and how well does it pump?
- POWER
- What can my body do, and what has changed?
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For publishing inquiries, interviews, speaking and women’s heart-health education, contact Lisa Zahakos, RPA-C.
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