Category: Community
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Happy Holidays everyone and farewell (for now)
Where I am in Sydney Australia, it is early Friday morning on the 20th of December… that means it is only a few more sleeps until Christmas… and that means, we’re about to enter a period of festive fanfare and potential chronic pain chaos. Last week I blogged about the…
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Rolling through Christmas
When my children were very little, I started a “good for everyone” habit. After I had snuck away to my bedroom late at night and wrapped the Christmas presents, and hidden them away on the top shelf, I collected the cardboard inner-tubes from the wrapping paper. “These will be great…
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A dinner date: let’s play pretend
Some days it can get pretty lonely when you’re dealing with pain, or when life is simply overwhelming, and you feel like it’s all a bit of a struggle. So, let’s do something a little different today… let’s pretend that we’re going on a dinner date together. I’ve sent you…
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