Author: The Mindful Migraine Blog
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Humming the pain away
The vagus nerve runs from your brain, behind your ears and down to your stomach. It helps your nervous system move between ‘fight and flight’ mode and ‘rest and digest’. In an attempt to reduce chronic pain, anxiety, or even just give yourself a lift on those days when you’re…
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Power poses for pain
I tend to avoid ‘bang-crash’ movies, but the other night I was feeling good, so I watched the first half of Marvel “Avengers”. Suddenly something occurred to me. Other than the Mark Ruffalo character (who has the potential to turn into the Hulk if he gets aggravated), everyone else in…
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Metabolic migraines
Ugh – I suppose that a blog writer who writes about migraines is going to have to expect to get a migraine from time to time. But I’m back – it’s 2.30pm in Australia and now that I’m up and at it, I thought I’d send you some notes I…
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Skiing lessons for migraineurs
Ok, so now I’ve got your attention, this blog post IS about skiing, but only by way of a memory that serves as a lesson. When I was about ten years old, I was lucky enough to go on a holiday to the snow with my family. My two younger…
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Inchstones and blogrolls
In one of those humbling lessons the universe so often sends me, no sooner had I posted a negative review of the internet, than the internet gifted me with positivity. Moreover, since I only just blogged about ‘inchstones‘ and celebrating all our baby steps, I decided I should share that…
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Twitter-X for chronic pain
I’ve only been on Twitter-X for a few weeks, and it’s been a rollercoaster. On the upside, whilst there’s not a lot of coordinated community activity around #migraines (that I can find), many people have been very generous with their time and answered my questions (about things such as injectable…
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Pet therapy for migraines
This post is about ‘pets for migraines’ – as opposed to ‘pets with migraines’ – which is really too terrible to think about… Although if you do think about it, it makes you wonder what specifically it is about the human brain that sets us apart from animals. Perhaps one…
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Duck-duck-swan
When I was younger, I found anacronyms helped me remember things. “Roger Of York Gave Battle In Vain” was for the order of the colors of the rainbow. Or you might be old enough to recall “My Very Earnest Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas.” (Of course, kids today no…
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Finding migraine relief
The Migraine World Summit is almost over, but there’s a few more hours left of their good information. I’ll definitely be back next year to listen again. Yesterday’s presentation was by headache specialist, neurologist and founder of Migraine Quebec, Dr Elizabeth Leroux. The contents of her interview are simplified, and…
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