Category: BookReview

  • The Healing Art of Tai Chi

    The Healing Art of Tai Chi

    When my neurologist told me that “more medicine does not equal less pain,” he added that what I really needed to do was change my lifestyle and mindset instead.  He wrote a list of things to try which included meditation and Yin Yoga.  As I’ve written about before, the meditation…

  • Healing with colour

    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…

  • “Migraine and me” & a Zoom meeting invite

    “Migraine and me” & a Zoom meeting invite

    Anyone who’s visited my blog for more than a few weeks knows that I absolutely LOVE doing mid-monthly shout-outs for other blogs that I’ve read and enjoyed.  I’ll do that again on the 17th of July (my blog-anniversary), but today’s blog post is a bit different; it’s a shout-out to…

  • Migraines, by the book

    Migraines, by the book

    I recently borrowed a book from the library called “Migraines” by Mary E. Williams (2011).  It started with a spot-on quote from Andrew Levy’s migraine-memoir, ‘A Brain Wider than the Sky’ (2009): “There is no line between migraine and worrying about migraine…” In the opening section of the book I…