Author: The Mindful Migraine Blog
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When mindfulness feels risky
It has become increasingly clear to me that there is no ONE SIZE FITS all approach to overcoming migraines. Migraine pain seems to come from an intensely personal, deep down, place within each of us, and as such, the causes, symptoms and treatment options will be equally individual. There are…
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How do you respond to pain-ignorance?
Living with chronic pain is painful… der… but I don’t mean just the pain-pain, I mean all the other stuff that goes with it. One of those “things” is the way that other people respond to your situation; the way they do (or don’t) accommodate our special needs, and the…
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‘Everyday’ trauma and your pain brain
The other day I was waiting to pick up my daughter from a nighttime school event. It was running late, and I was getting a bit huffy and puffy about having to sit around and wait. It wasn’t that I had to be anywhere else, more that I just didn’t…
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I DO want to be a content creator!
Many (many) weeks ago, I wrote a post titled “Migraine’s Secret Sauce” and concluded by complaining about how many people on social media were calling themselves “content creators”. As I saw it, the world was already full of content, AI could make content, no one had time to read so…
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15 minute “workout” (for pain days)
One of the messages that my internet seems to be filled with these days, is various forms of “use AI to do your work for you”. I’ve written before (here) about how I’m a bit hesitant to imagine a world where AI writes all my blogposts for me. Whilst I…
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“Good doggy”
Ok, so today’s post is a bit odd… but stick with me! I was watching a documentary about the neuroscience of dogs (as you do) and there were so many things that felt relevant to my healing journey… again… stick with me. As the mother of two fur-babies, there were…
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Bedroom basics for pain-isolation
When I get migraines, I become extremely sensitive to light and noise. ‘Normal’ sunlight suddenly seems way too bright, and people talking becomes amplified in my head, as if someone turned the volume up to 11 on the 1-10 dial. My traditional treatment was to go to the quietest, darkest…
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Bellamy Young flying the flag for migraines
As an Australian, it seems a bit hit and miss what news we receive from other countries around the world. Some things that appear in my news feed appear “brand new” to me, but turn out to have been around for a while. For example, the Headache Alliance is “a…
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Does mustard help migraines?!?
A little while ago a reader called Angelina sent me a link to a Facebook video that showed someone putting their feet in a bowl of warm water and mustard and said, “I saw this and thought of you”. Now, it’s not every day that people associate me with mustard,…
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