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Mindfulness for migraines
Mindfulness is the number one, overarching tool that has helped me reduce my migraine triggers (stress, fatigue, posture) and increase my resilience to the triggers I can not avoid (genes, hormones, climate etc.). As a result, I have managed to reduce my migraines from 3+ days a week (every week for…
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My migraine story
I have experienced migraines since I was 11 years old. In my younger years, they only appeared occasionally and did not have a major impact on my life. As such, I’ll be brutally honest and admit that I never attempted to understand my migraine diagnosis. I did not take the time…
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Am I an otrovert?
For my entire life I have felt deeply aligned with “Camp Introvert.” I’m happy to chat to humans in the real world, face to face, have interesting conversations and share laugh-out-loud moments. Just not too often… or for too long! In reality, I’m happiest at home. Being completely alone with…
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“The power of self-healing”
Today’s post is a short summary of Dr Sarah Woodhouse’s book, whose sub-title is “take action over your trauma.” The review is short because it is trauma-focused and therefore raises personal issues that are probably best handled offline by yourself, at your own pace, with the help of people close…
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The Migraine Mexican-Wave
A while ago I shared a post I found on social media, about neuro-immune lag and the 48-hour protocol. The idea is that migraines are a ‘threshold’ condition, where our brains can only take so much over-stimulus before they crack and send us into migraine-mode. That post (here) explained that…
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The Madwoman in the Attic
When I was in my teens and 20s, I went through a goth-girl stage. (You can see my photo on the Gothic tab of this blog.) I took to wearing all black, dying my hair ebony, and heaping on the kohl eyeliner. This stage also involved me reading ‘gothic’ books,…
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Do you live in your head or heart?
Reading back through many of my blog posts I notice how often I say things like; “I think that…” or “I wonder if…” These are comments that relate to the head. I also noticed that whilst I do say comments such as “I feel as if…” – I don’t say…
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What causes ocular migraines?
Today’s post is about Ocular Migraine. Which is also sometimes called Retinal Migraine. (And that’s just the start of my confusion!) I don’t personally have this sort of migraine, so this is all new to me. I’ll go step by step through the material I read, and hopefully I’ll help…
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Laughter as medicine
It’s been a rough couple of weeks since my dog passed. His younger sister, a 12-year-old black cavoodle, didn’t eat or sleep for a while. Oh, and she cried each morning when she woke up to find he was still missing. Ugh. The last post since his passing also wasn’t…
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Does crying cause migraines?
Two years ago, I wrote a post called “Mo(u)rning“. I wrote it because I was sad following the loss of a family member in my life, but was also writing more broadly about grieving over the loss of self that often accompanies a chronic pain diagnosis. Today I want to…
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Farewell my fluffy friend
Short post today, and none this Friday; I’m going to take a short break. It feels like only yesterday I was consoling one of my blogging besties – Sheila from Offshoots Photography – about the loss of her beloved family dog. And now it is my turn to be completely…