Author: The Mindful Migraine Blog
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Grudges, be gone!
You work hard, you achieve plenty, but sometimes something, or someone gets in your way. Someone ‘photobombs’ your perfect life. And that makes you frustrated and disappointed; nobody likes a party-pooper. [Image source: Bored Panda has plenty of great photobombing photos here] The trick is to feel those negative emotions…
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Finding faith
As I’ve written before (The Global Migraine), the readers of this blog come from all around the world, and undoubtedly from a variety of different faiths. As such, I want to tread carefully but be very clear – you are ALL welcome here. I also want to say something potentially…
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Migraine Snakes and Ladders
Today was supposed to be a post about what I eat on an average day. The intention was to put out a “my daily intake” styled post so that we can all review it and decide what I could be having more / less of… the problem? I spent the…
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Consipracy theories and chronic pain
When I was younger (and I’m talking about everything from my teens to my 30s) I LOVED unsolved mysteries. The Mary Celeste comes instantly to mind – it was the boat that was found floating on the Atlantic in the 1870s. The ship was undamaged, loaded with food, and yet…
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Why do we hide our chronic illness?
A little while ago I posted a book review titled “hidden from view“. The idea was that the real root-cause of chronic illness is often hidden behind other more obvious reasons. We think it’s a physical, structural reason, but is often a deeper more subconscious, psychological cause. More recently, the…
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Therapy for chronic pain
In Australia we don’t usually say ‘therapy’, we say ‘counselling’ – but they mean the same thing: talking to a professional in the hope of feeling better. When it comes to living a life with chronic pain, I think it can help. I know I keep going back to the…
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A holey revelation
Every now and then, life hands you a strange revelation… sometimes it comes in the form of a blinding-light styled epiphany, a “Eureka!” moment of extreme enthusiasm… other times, it comes as more of a muted “huh.” I guess it doesn’t matter which way a revelation arrives, only that you…
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“What the heck is water?”
In 2005, novelist David Foster Wallace gave the commencement address to Kenyon College. Titled “This is Water”, the speech was well received on the day but seemed to take on a life of its own for years afterwards, going on to be dubbed one of the best… even though it…
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Unhurry – or – make haste slowly
Aesop’s fable of “The Tortoise and The Hare” involves two critters who decide to have a race. The story is over 2,000 years old, but still as lively as ever. The young hare (or rabbit) taunts the old tortoise (or turtle) for moving in a way that is so agonizingly…
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