Category: Community

  • It’s about the healing – not the healer

    It’s about the healing – not the healer

    OK – controversial post coming up. I’ve been a bit blown away with stories of healers in the last few weeks. I went looking for them – no doubt – but – what struck me was that there was often an emphasis about the person in the story NOT the…

  • HELP! My name is “dying”

    HELP! My name is “dying”

    When I was pregnant with my first child, my husband and I started experimenting with names. We’d write them out, say them out loud, and place name-cards on the fridge of ones we liked… moving them up and down the line towards most to least favorite… and then remove them…

  • Dance partners for healing

    Dance partners for healing

    Today is the 14-month-anniversary of my blog – and yes – I’m still new enough at this, or excitable enough, to keep tabs! And as always, I want to do a shout-out of the recent blogs I’ve been visiting, but I want to start with one in particular and the…

  • 1,000 days of pain

    1,000 days of pain

    Today’s post is a bit of a downer I’m afraid, so if you’re not up to it, I won’t take offence if you come back tomorrow. I’ve had migraines for decades. My first migraine occurred when I was 11 on a school excursion, and my worst ever migraine happened a…

  • Team Challenge – are you game?

    Team Challenge – are you game?

    When I used to work full-time in the city, every coffee shop that I went to had a Loyalty Card: “buy 9 coffees – get one free”. Of course, you had to keep track of all the cards in your handbag and find the right one for the right shop…

  • Learning from cake mix

    Learning from cake mix

    My husband sent me a link to a psychology website a while back. I confess I was confused. The title was “A Creativity Lesson from Betty Crocker”. Ummmm… OK. Was this some sort of hint that I needed to get back into the kitchen more? Was he finally making the…

  • UGH – I’m struggling

    UGH – I’m struggling

    Late to post today – sorry – but I’m feeling pretty unwell. Not sure why, but the last couple of days have felt like a reversal of all the healing that’s been happening for the last couple of years. I know that I may never be pain free, but it’s…

  • Runes, ravens and self-reflection

    Runes, ravens and self-reflection

    I try to read as many blogs as I can. Some weeks are a bit of a wash out (I’m too sick, or too busy, or too busy because I’ve been too sick for too long). Other weeks, however, I can cover a lot of distance, and I love every…

  • I’M ONE YEAR OLD!!!

    I’M ONE YEAR OLD!!!

    Woo hoo – pinch me (gently) – I can hardly believe it – The Mindful Migraine Blog turned one year old today…!! As I’ve mentioned before, I started this blog because I was sad and lonely and couldn’t find anything like it online.  I was looking for real-life information about…