Your companion for understanding, preventing and restoring heart health.
Clear, specialist guidance on heart disease, heart failure and prevention — designed to help you understand your heart and make confident decisions about your health.
Why The Heart Guide Exists
Every day in clinic, I meet people who are trying to make sense of something that feels frightening, confusing or overwhelming.
They have been told they have heart failure.
Or high cholesterol.
Or an abnormal heart test result.
They leave with numbers, medication lists and medical terminology — but often without a clear understanding of what it all means.
And when understanding is missing, uncertainty fills the gap.
Lack of clarity makes it harder to make key decisions.
Harder to prioritise.
Harder to feel confident.
The overwhelm is paralysing.
Fear rises....
I have seen how different the results are when someone truly understands their condition — when they know what matters, what does not, and where to focus their energy. Confidence in your care and your situation changes everything.
The Heart Guide was created to provide that clarity.
Here you will find clear explanations, practical frameworks and evidence-based insight — designed to help you understand your heart, ask better questions, and make more confident decisions about your health.
For those who want to go deeper, there will be structured learning resources and guided programs that build on this foundation. And if you prefer to learn visually, you can explore my educational videos on https://www.youtube.com/@drjodie-annsenior , where I break down complex cardiology concepts step by step.
This is not personalised medical advice.
It is structured education — the kind that makes conversations with your own doctor more meaningful and more productive.
Because when you understand what is happening, you are no longer just reacting.
You are helping to change your future.
This is for proactive people who are interested in their best health and what they can do to partner with their health professionals to get the very best health possible. If that's you, then welcome to your gateway to self-advocacy. ❤️
Dr Jodie-Ann SeniorNot sure how to talk to your family about your heart failure diagnosis? Cardiologist Dr Jodie-Ann Senior shares how to talk to partners, children, and teenagers honestly and calmly.
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Dr Jodie-Ann SeniorTold your heart failure is stable but still feel terrible? Cardiologist Dr Jodie-Ann Senior explains why 'stable' and 'well' are different things — and what to ask for.
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