Colleen Brunetti started her career as a teacher, but after her pulmonary hypertension diagnosis was forced to leave this field. She began a journey to re-invent herself implementing a holistic lifestyle and went on to become a certified health coach.
In her book “Defining the new normal: A guide to becoming more than your diagnosis” Colleen touches upon many important aspects of daily life including nutrition, sleep, physical exercise, family planning, caring for children, social life, finances, mental health and much more.
Colleen stresses the importance of patient empowerment and the need for patients to take charge of their medical experience, from how to interact with one’s doctor, hospital, insurance companies and other relevant parties, to the choices made about one’s care and medication protocols.
Each chapter of Colleen’s book ends with a “Defining moment”, consisting in a series of questions for patients to fill in in order to think back on what they have just read, take stock of progress made, define future goals. The lessons and suggested activities in the book are designed is to help patients find their “new normal” and develop self-care skills.
A great book that we would highly recommend to all patients!
Colleen Brunetti’s book is available to purchase on the Amazon website and is available for free for a limited period of time on Kindle at this link
Learn more about Colleen Brunetti by looking up her blog at this link