Wear Red Day gets bigger and better every year! Thank you to everyone who wore red (and told people why!), sent me a photo, tweeted, tagged, or posted your photos — friends, family, coworkers, heart sisters near and far, blog readers, friends of friends, and more. It’s such an incredible feeling to see so much support. […]
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Feb 2015
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Feb 2015
This year I am serving as a national spokeswoman for Go Red for Women, and in that role I was asked to contribute an article to the Huffington Post. As I thought about what I wanted women — and everyone really — to know about heart disease, I landed on what is perhaps the most […]
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Feb 2015
This Friday is National Wear Red Day! Will you wear red with me? It’s fun and easy: Step 1: Wear something red. Step 2: Take a picture of yourself looking smashing in red. Step 3: Send it to me at jen (at) mylifeinred.net or post on social media (my Facebook page is facebook.com/mylifeinredblog and Twitter is […]
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Feb 2015
This is my advice for making the most of American Heart Month. I hope you Go Red for yourself and spread the word. Please feel free to use this graphic, just please link back here. Thanks! – Jen
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Jan 2015
Heart disease patients and caregivers — here’s an opportunity to influence resources available online. WEGO Health is a health-focused social network of more than 100,000 patient influencers (community leaders, bloggers, tweeps, and Facebook page managers) who are actively involved in health online. The network interested in expanding and developing its heart health/heart disease network and resources and wants to hear […]
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Nov 2014
Last week my brother freaked me out by texting this photo with no context whatsoever. I thought he was back in the hospital. He explained it was a from a recent checkup in which he learned a new term (and much like “widowmaker,” this one has dark realism to it). After my pulse returned to […]
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Nov 2014
When I was a kid I loved the playground taunt “anything boys can do girls can do better” and I probably secretly still do. But here’s one thing women could stand to under-achieve on — getting, and dying from, heart disease. More women than men die each year from heart disease and stroke. In fact, […]
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Nov 2014
Join me on Twitter this Wednesday, November 12 at 12 p.m. central time for a Go Red for Women #HeartDayHumpDay chat with singer, actress, and Broadway star Laura Bell Bundy, Yahoo! anchor Bianna Golodryga and me (@jen_thorson)! We will talk about heart disease prevention and healthy living. If you are on Twitter, follow and join in!
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Oct 2014
Last June I spent three days in Los Angeles being dressed up and made up and interviewed and photographed as one of the Go Red for Women Real Women. I took all these photos and then kept them under wraps for months as the release of the “Class of 2015” was embargoed until late September. […]
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Oct 2014
Have I got a story to tell you. It’s one I couldn’t talk about for a while — embargoed they say in the PR business. But now it’s released and official and real: I am a 2015 Go Red for Women national spokesperson. One of the “Go Red for Women Real Women, Class of 2015.” […]
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