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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 the migraine diagnosis, my symptoms, triggers, or treatment options.…
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Migraines and the MTHFR gene
OK, heads up – swear word coming up. When I first saw the term “MTHFR gene” in a wellness book, my mind instantly (and unnecessarily) filled in the blanks with vowels and came up with the rude phrase “mother-f*ckr gene”. Sorry. [I blame it on the self-help shelf at the…
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Make a dream-board
You’ve probably heard of the phrase “mood-board” plenty of times before (I know I have, and I’ve written about it here). The idea is that you collect magazine images, postcards, affirmations, fabric swatches etc etc and place them all on a vertical pinboard, lay them in a tray, or use…
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When your healing journey hits a roadblock
I’ve written before that I have had to change my healing-metaphor from time to time. There’s the shift I made from thinking of myself as a “migraine warrior” to becoming more of a “gentle gardener” in order to make peace with my pain. Then there’s the shift from thinking of…
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Happy B’day
June is Migraine Awareness Month, the anniversary of my chronic migraine pain, my birth-month, pride-month, AND (as my blog-bestie Dayle pointed out) the start of Hurricane Season. Today is a super short post to celebrate “Burple Day” in Australia. It’s a relatively new initiative by Migraine Australia which encourages you…
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Migraine Awareness Month (& blog news)
Hello! If today is your first day visiting The Mindful Migraine Blog; welcome! If you’re a regular popper-inner, welcome back my lovely friend! June is Migraine Awareness Month. In the past, I haven’t made too much of a fuss about it, because I’ve been struggling too much with my health…
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Time flies regardless of the fun-factor
Short post today, because time is tight. Seriously – where has this year gone?!? It feels like only yesterday I was having my New Year’s Revelation that we can be more than one version of ourselves… and now… 4 months have swept by in the blink of an eye… When…
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“Chronic pain management”
Today’s post is a (long, but totally worth it) book review of pain psychologist David Walton’s “Chronic Pain Management” (2021). It hooked me in, because the cover seemed to be calling to me from the library shelf, and the opening words made me say a vigorous “yes!” in my head:…
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The bird pilgrimage
Some time ago I read a post on the “Holistic Fibro Fighter” blog [which seems to have gone silent] which the author, Jane Taylor, titled “A pilgrimage of self-care”. The title gave me a zingy “wow- yes!” moment, because the word ‘pilgrimage’ instantly resonated with my healing journey. It explains…
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Do animals get migraines?
The answer is, apparently, yes. But of course, an animal can’t articulate their suffering, so we can only make assumptions based on their behavior. The reason I thought to ask came out of a conversation with my blog-buddy Thomas who writes on his site Super Facts. He mentioned that AI…
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