"Talk it Out" Online Discussion Group with Host Gwen Mayes

"Talk it Out" --- Patients want to be heard and seen by those who matter most. Learn and share heartfelt strategies for communicating with the important folks in your life about what it's like living with HCM. 

Greetings from online discussion group leader Gwen Mayes! Gwen is in her mid-60s and has had symptoms of HCM since childhood. She was diagnosed in her 20s and has done well with medication and lifestyle changes. Gwen is followed at two COEs and by a local cardiologist. To her, the frightening arrhythmias and emotional toll have been the most difficult to manage. She will focus on self-awareness and stress management as a discussion group leader. During her career, Gwen was a physician assistant and lawyer and spent 30 years as a health policy leader in Washington, DC. Today, she is a consultant and life coach, lives on the Chesapeake Bay in Annapolis, Maryland, and she sails, writes, paints, and enjoys entertaining.

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