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Episode 19 — Understanding Limitations How a Heart Attack Affects Your Body and Mind


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🎧 Episode 19 — Understanding Limitations
How a Heart Attack Affects Your Body and Mind

After a heart attack, you don’t just lose fitness — you lose confidence in your own body.

And what’s strange is… nobody really prepares you for that part.

In this episode of Stronger After the Storm, I talk about limitations — not just the physical ones, but the mental ones too. The constant scanning. The inner checking. The quiet fear that can sit in the background even when nothing is actually wrong.

I share what it felt like when my body started to feel unfamiliar, and how things began to change when I stopped treating limitations like failure… and started treating them like information.

This episode is for any man who feels held back, frustrated, or like he “should be further on” by now — and needs to hear that this stage is part of healing, not proof you’re doing it wrong.

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Stronger After The StormBy Dougie Smith