Author: The Mindful Migraine Blog
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Rolling through Christmas
When my children were very little, I started a “good for everyone” habit. After I had snuck away to my bedroom late at night and wrapped the Christmas presents, and hidden them away on the top shelf, I collected the cardboard inner-tubes from the wrapping paper. “These will be great…
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A dinner date: let’s play pretend
Some days it can get pretty lonely when you’re dealing with pain, or when life is simply overwhelming, and you feel like it’s all a bit of a struggle. So, let’s do something a little different today… let’s pretend that we’re going on a dinner date together. I’ve sent you…
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The day I met Queen Nefertiti
Many, many, many, years ago, I studied art in high school. One of our major works required us to explore the changing way women were represented in art. I recall that we had to choose three images, from different eras, and then find a way to mix their messages. Strangely,…
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Light me up Scotty…
I’m not a Star Trek fan… I don’t know how, but I missed it all when I was younger and know absolutely nothing about it now… except the “beam me up Scotty” message… This (apparently misquoted-pop-culture) phrase came to mind when I was reading an article about an Australian business……
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My worst migraine ever
Ok, so the details of this story are going to seem a bit jumbled… because in my mind they were a bit jumbled… because when you have a serious migraine attack, they are always a bit jumbled… * It was Easter time, and I had a bad migraine. Not really…
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“How to change minds”
When my neurologist told me that “more medicine doesn’t equal less pain”, I didn’t want to listen. When he told me that to heal, I needed to adjust my lifestyle and mindset, I became as prickly as a cactus. When he suggested that I should start doing meditation, yoga and…
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Hanging out
I never had a hammock growing up. We had swings when we were little. Some of the swings were store bought, others were improvised from tires or planks and ropes. Still going decades later, my father turned a milk crate into a baby swing for my daughters. I still remember…
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BRAIN-FOG (a short story)
Carey shook hands with the call center’s floor manager and then tucked her hand back into her jacket pocket, trying to hide the fact that she was wiping his sweat off her fingers. She followed Mr Abaddon’s skinny shoulders and wide hips towards her new cubicle, bemused by his strange…
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What is functional medicine?
When I first heard the phrase “functional medicine” from my blogging buddy Midwest Mary, my first thought was – “isn’t all medicine functional? Why would I take a non-functioning medication?!?” Curiosity piqued, I went off to find out more about ‘functional medicine.’ First stop – my computer’s AI assistant which…
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