Category: BookReview
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“The body keeps the score”
I had heard A LOT about the book “The Body Keeps the Score” (2014) by Bessel van der Kolk, long before I picked it up. Perhaps it was all the hype around its potential life-changing ability that made my expectations VERY high… but I’m going to be potentially controversial and…
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“Yoshuku – the Japanese art of manifesting”
I’m still heavily invested in my “let’s manifest a nicer world” tangent, as part of my New Year’s Revelation for 2026 (there’s personal progress updates (and pictures) at the end of this post). As such, I was interested to discover a Japanese perspective on manifesting. Straight away, I felt a…
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Red brain / Green brain
In the book “Mindfulness on the run” (2016), the author Dr Chantal Hofstee notes that the way our thoughts and emotions interact is complex. And yet, the ‘bottom line’ of all the discussions about layers of the conscious and sub-conscious is simple: “your brain [either] feels safe or unsafe” (page…
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Transcendental-mantra-meditation
When I was 19 years old, I went backpacking through India and Nepal with the intention of making it to the Annapurna base camp (read more here about how I ALMOST made it). One of the gifts that I brought home from that journey was an increased awareness of how…
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Practicing being #authentic
Now that I have a little more time on my hands (with the PhD finished), and after I hilariously botched up my selfies for the “kiddy craft for migraines” post, I decided to learn a little more about how to take photographs… just on my phone… nothing fancy… or too…
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Go on: hug yourself!
Now that I had graduated from my PhD studies and can call myself Dr Linda, I have no need to read technical books anymore… and yet… some habits are hard to break. As such, I’m still reading a lot of non-fiction works, but now their topic tends to be all…
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“Not tonight honey – I have a headache”
What a cliche! And yet… where there’s smoke there’s fire… or is there? Today’s post is a little bit long (it went places I wasn’t expecting) and it is also potentially a little bit tricky as it initially treads into an area many people might consider taboo for public conversation.…
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Bibliotherapy and migraines
As someone who has had a lot of migraines, I can tell you that there is a sliding scale of functionality that is attached to a life lived with pain. On some days, the pain is manageable or nearly missing, so you can do most things, even perform something as…
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“No mud, no lotus”
Today’s blog post is a book review for Thích Nhất Hạnh’s book “No Mud, No Lotus” which is a practical self-help guide published over 10 years ago in 2014. Before I started to read it, I knew nothing about the book or the author, other than I had heard the…
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