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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 the early years they only appeared occasionally and did not have a major impact on my life. In my thirties however, they became more regular, and I began to experience hemiplegia (stroke-like symptoms). In my forties I was occasionally hospitalized for treatment and…
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‘Good girl’ = bad health?
Ok, so today is another edition of “I may be 50+ years old, but I have NEVER heard of that before”. I’ve done several similar posts where I follow my curiosity and explore the new terms I come across, such as ‘eating crow‘, ‘ecotone‘ and ‘allodynia‘… today is “Good Girl…
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How do you name your pain?
In Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet”, the heroine whisper-wails into the night-air off her balcony; “O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?” After he doesn’t reply, she reassures him that she couldn’t care less what his last name is, or that his family is her family’s sworn enemy. Soon after…
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All the ways we’re getting sick
an image of colas listed from McDonalds coke, fountain coke, canned coke, glass, and bottled.
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The military sleep method
I recently wrote a post (here) about how I help myself fall asleep by saying the alphabet backwards as I practice deep breathing. Well, my computer must have overheard my typing, because it started to feed me news links to other sleep methods. The method I was most intrigued by…
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“Dr Linda”… at last!
Woo Hoo! It’s done! At the wise old age of 54, I have officially graduated from my PhD studies to become a Doctor of Philosophy, Architecture. It’s taken me a little over 5 years, part-time, 3 of which I was living with diagnosed chronic migraine. Now that I’m on the…
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An Uncanny Story (Part Two)
Last week, for Halloween, I wrote a short story (here) that finished on a cliffhanger. Many of you asked – “what happens next?” (YAY!) So here it is, a brief interruption to my regular mindful-healing posts, and another sojourn into the uncanny… let there be answers… (and a few more…
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“Be someone’s lighthouse”
Today’s title is shamelessly taken from the last line of John Malone’s (lovely, well worth a read) poem: The Last Lighthouse. I’ve mentioned before that there are moments in blog-land when words jump out at me… and attach themselves like beautiful burs on my fluffy-mental-sock… and then they linger there.…
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What is “quiet cracking”?
It feels like only yesterday I learnt the term “quiet quitting”, which refers to employees all but giving up on their job. They turn up to the office each day, but they put in the bare minimum of effort, without enthusiasm, and without anything close to an “above and beyond”…
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A story uncanny
I’ve been experimenting with ways to help people understand what it’s like to live with chronic migraine. This blog is part of my endeavors, as are the short stories I write under the genre-name I refer to as “Migraine Gothic”. After I’d written a few posts (here), I put several…
The Mindful Migraine 