Author: The Mindful Migraine Blog
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1,000 days of pain
Today’s post is a bit of a downer I’m afraid, so if you’re not up to it, I won’t take offence if you come back tomorrow. I’ve had migraines for decades. My first migraine occurred when I was 11 on a school excursion, and my worst ever migraine happened a…
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Brains in glass jars
My eldest daughter is studying Posthumanism at school for a research project and it got me thinking… Do you remember those old sci-fi horror movies where a disembodied brain was floating in a giant tank of clear or cloudy liquid? Or the various versions of Frankenstein’s monster and the stories…
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Cool, calm and collected
One of the upsides of practicing mindfulness techniques over the last year is the sense of serenity that is slowly creeping into my revived soul. I move slightly slower and with more intentionality, for example, and not just when I am practicing Tai Chi. When I am putting the dry…
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“The neuroscience of mindfulness”
A while ago I posted about “Mindfulness and its discontents”, a book I picked up from the university library. In the same visit I also picked up another book, titled “The neuroscience of mindfulness” by Australian neuroscientist Stan Rodski (2019). The book starts straight out with why we need mindfulness;…
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You gotta have good foundations
If you want a building to stay standing… you gotta have foundations. Tents don’t have foundations… and tents blow away when they’re subjected to a little bit of wind-blowing-pressure. A skyscraper, on the other hand, well it has structural members that go deeeeeep underground, so that it can stay standing…
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Foot Yoga for migraines
I was listening to an interview about migraines a while ago and the two women discussing their pain management spoke about the importance of good footwear. Their adamant conviction caught me off guard. “Good shoes = less head pain” … surely not? But as they kept talking, I realized their…
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Insta-fatigue and resentment reels
In the paper the other day was an article about the declining level of fulfilling engagement with social media sites such as Instagram and TikTok. The author spoke of how Instagram began with a happy-snap, moved towards an emphasis on swoon-worthy enviable pictures, then a collection (or carrousel) of pictures,…
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My bloomin’ orchids
I love reading other blogs, and while I was out and about a while ago, I came across a post: Waiting for trees to bud is good because it is hard – Incense and Crayons. Towards the end of the post the author writes: “This practice of watching trees grow…
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Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) for chronic pain
A few weeks ago I read a post on LinkedIn by Migraine Ireland that referred to something called Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT). I’ve never heard of it before, but it instantly caught my attention as something that might be helpful for my healing journey. In their post they wrote: “Compassion…
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