Author: The Mindful Migraine Blog
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Night Nausea
So, for all of you who visit looking for some optimistic insights about living your healthiest, happiest, bestest life – today’s not the day – sorry. I went to the neurologist’s office yesterday for Botox. Things are hectic here at the moment too, so maybe it’s stress, or maybe it…
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Migraine Biochemistry
OK, so today is another deep dive into the science of migraines, from the Migraine World Summit 2024, covering an interview with Dr Peter Goadsby, a professor of neurology at Kings College, London. This is another example of a science-discussion that pushed my art-brain to the max, which makes it…
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Migraine-brains are like Nuclear Reactors…
The other day there was an earthquake in Japan. It made me sad. It also made me worried. For the people, for their buildings and infrastructure… for their nuclear reactors. In my typical “domino thinking” manner, that thought led to another: ‘normal’ brains are like coal-based power-plants, whilst migraine-brains are…
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Remix your life like a DJ in 1 hour!
Sorry, I couldn’t help myself. My Instagram feed seems to be full of advice on how to triple your followers by baiting big hooks and reeling people in. I don’t know what I opened to trigger the avalanche of advice, but using titles that include small numbers and big promises…
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My migraine’s marshmallow snowman
OK, so that’s a heading I wasn’t expecting to write anytime soon… but… I have been giving my squishy-stress-snowman a workout the last few days, and I thought he deserved a post of his own. In Australia, there has been a massive craze of things called “fidget spinners” and “stress…
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Don’t hit the pole, don’t hit the pole!
The super-famous motivational speaker Tony Robbins (or Anthony Robbins as I knew him from when I was younger) has always left me feeling conflicted. He has so many good ideas, but there is something about his high-octane way of delivering those ideas that makes me feel tired and lazy. I’m…
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Hydration (Part Three)
I’ve written about how we need to keep our bodies hydrated, and how drinking lots of water leads to lots of weeing, and both posts mentioned the recurring phrase of “drink more water!” Today is one last post on hydration based on some feedback from the first two posts: there…
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Healing with colour
I found myself with an hour to spare in the university library recently. On the shelf in the good health section, I came across a book titled “Color Healing Manual” by Pauline Wills (1993). As someone previously trained in design, I quite liked the idea of healing chronic pain with…
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“I have a migraine” is NOT a lie
When I was in my 20s, I worked in the headquarters of a large Australian retail company, project managing the construction of their stores across the country. It was a great job, because I got flown around Australia, and OK, I wasn’t in holiday mode, but I got to see…
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