Author: The Mindful Migraine Blog
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Drinking water in slow motion
“Drink more water” is the catch cry of chronic pain curers and well-wishers everywhere: this post is not about hydration… not the normal sort anyway. This morning was like any other. Tai Chi, farewell hubby, walk the dogs, and then the manic scramble to get the kids out the door…
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Wall Pilates for migraines
Wall Pilates is a TikTok trend I heard about in my news feed (I’m not even on TikTok?!). Normally I would be instantly averse to anything that comes to me via ‘recent trends’, but I confess I have been interested in trying Pilates for a while now, and I thought…
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The future of migraine research
In another instalment from the Migraine World Summit, (which is still accessible if you want to watch), Dr Walter Koroshetz, director of neurology disorders (NINDS) in the United Sates, was asked about the future of migraine research. The interview stretched my pain-brain a tad, and there was a lot of…
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‘Mindful-lite’ and ‘inchstones’
When I look back on the beginning of my holistic healing journey, I realize that I was a bit ‘intense’. Due to my chronic migraines, I had reached such a low place, and needed to make such drastic changes, that I went into ‘bed-bound bootcamp’ mode. The program that I…
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The global migraine
Each day, after I upload a post onto the blog, I can go ‘behind the veil’ as it were. I can see how many people have been reading the individual posts, and the blog in general. I don’t always check, because I often find myself becoming a little compulsive about…
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Controlling chronic migraine
The Migraine Summit is currently underway, and I’ve watched 2 of the first 4 sessions available. So far, I’ve been impressed with the quality of the speakers and the material they cover in the 30-minute sessions. There’s enough material in each session to make a blog post, but I won’t…
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Body-shaming
In Australia we have a ‘reality’ television show in which people who have been unlucky in love are paired up by experts, and then ‘married at first sight’. The couples are then expected to get to know each other and fall madly in love, all while the cameras are rolling. …
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Make your bed
In 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven, gave the formal address to graduating students at the University of Austin in Texas. As a highly decorated Navy Seal it was perhaps no surprise that he advocated the importance of discipline and determination. What was a little more surprising was how he advocated…
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Buddhism, nasal sprays and AI blog crawlers
This morning was a strange morning, made up of two negatives and a positive. I set off early to get ahead of the rush at the local Medical Centre, intent on getting a script for a nasal spray version of my migraine abortive. After waiting forty minutes to see the…
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