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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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Butterfly Taps for Every Little Cell
Like so many internet trends, I am often late to the party. Most of the time, I couldn’t give two who-who-hoots… I am who I am. This time though, I wish I had come across two nifty little ideas a little sooner. Why? Because, combining them has been a big…
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“Your chronic illness is NOT your kryptonite”
I’m a big reader, but while I was very sick with chronic migraine, I was also studying for my PhD. I had absolutely no time for recreational reading (other than blogs). These days, I have a bit more time on my hands to read for fun (I just finished John…
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Healing migraines with a chat-bot
AI-everything is everywhere these days. Discover an item from your grocery delivery is missing? Log onto the computer and a chat-bot will efficiently refund your money for the missing item. Or, it gets into a strange, circular argument where it can’t understand what you want and can’t seem to forward…
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The Silva Method for Migraines
Some time ago, I wrote about the power of alpha-theta-waves for healing. Our brains are constantly producing brain-waves, and the ‘optimum’ state for deep relaxation is apparently when we are in an alpha-theta state. Alpha-theta waves First up, a quick recount if you missed the earlier post: Theta waves appear…
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What is neuro-immune lag?
Over and over I remind you: DON’T take medical advice off the internet. And I mean it. But. I’m also guilty of letting little tidbits of information tweak my curiosity and send me off to investigate more. That’s how I landed on the concept of ‘neuro-immune lag’. PainNP is a…
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Embrace a ‘perennial mindset’
I’m considered to be a “Gen X” person. That’s shorthand for “Generation X”, and it includes people born between 1965 and 1980. My parents are Baby Boomers. My two daughters are Gen Z. I have friends who are Millennials (also known as Gen Y). Millennials ‘came of age’ at the…
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Daith piercing for migraines
Many cultures see ear-piercing as highly fashionable. When I was young, I agreed, and was a super-fan of all that glittered. My mother, however, was not so keen. I still remember the speech she delivered: “if God had wanted you to have holes in your ears, you would have been…
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When silence hurts (music for migraines)
One of the most obvious side-effects of migraines is the terrible head-in-a-vice pain. Migraines, however, are more than just a ‘bad headache’. In the past I have compared them to a ‘bad hangover‘, which is slightly closer, because a migraine event is a whole-body catastrophe. Symptoms can include: nausea, dizziness,…
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What is ‘soft-hermitting’?
If you live with chronic pain, your bedroom is a big part of your life. More than just a place to go to rest and restore at the end of the day, it is also a retreat and a sanctuary. I call it my “migraine cave” where I hibernate during…