Author: The Mindful Migraine Blog
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Migraine terminology (words matter… mostly)
The other day on Twitter-X, I saw a post that essentially read “I’m 50 years old and I’ll go to my grave using two spaces after a full-stop.” The replies varied from “preach brother” and “I’ll die on that hill with you”, through to “do what you want – editors…
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Migraines – as advertised
My intention was to write a completely different post today, something about why words matter and how the terminology around migraine care is changing. I’ll get there. Instead, I opened up my web browser and saw an ad from an overseas online store that sells everything you could imagine for…
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World Migraine Summit
Ok, so I totally tempted fate yesterday by saying that I was ‘over’ my migraine attack. A few hours later, I was back in bed, completely wiped out, no dinner for me. At the risk of showing my age, I feel like one of those antique ‘roly-poly dolls’ or the…
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Migraines and car crashes
In Australia, you can get your Learners License when you turn 16, and then sit a driving test for your Provisional License when you are 17. When I went for my driving test (decades ago), my examiner told me that I had done everything right and broken no laws, but…
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Goldilocks, routines and migraines
When I first started this blog as a New Year’s resolution to myself, I was mostly posting to keep track of all the links that had worked for me, and in the hope that they might one day help a couple of other people. I uploaded about 10 posts on…
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(Un)solicited advice for migraines
As I was walking the dogs at dawn yesterday, the silence was broken by the sound of two women jogging up behind me. Even before they got close, I could hear their conversation. The first woman was saying something to the effect of “I’ve been running for years, but she’s…
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Migraines in The Matrix
Sometimes it can feel like you’re living in an alternate reality to everyone else, like the movie The Matrix. This is not, however, the sort of Matrix I want to talk about today. There will be no advice on how to bend spoonies, for example. (As an aside – if…
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Acupressure for migraines
Acupressure works by applying pressure to specific points (acupoints) on the body in order to stimulate energy flow and release tension. Decades ago, someone told me that pressing the webby flesh between your thumb and pointer finger for 60 seconds was enough to reduce stress and anxiety. I wasn’t convinced,…
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Free-writing for migraines
In 1924 André Breton published his Surrealist Manifesto in which he encouraged artists to use ‘automatic’ or ‘free’ writing, where “the first draft is your last”. You set your clock for, let’s say two minutes, and then you write, without stopping or overthinking, and definitely no editing. Here’s my two…
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