Category: Community
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Ghosting, coasting, or boasting: chronic-pain-friends (PART 2)
Last week I wrote about friends ‘ghosting’ people with chronic pain, and how much it hurts. Today I want to talk about a different friendship arrangement; ‘coasting’. For me, I would suggest that most of my friendships fall into this category. My friends are ‘cruisy’. They’re low-maintenance. We don’t make…
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Angel Number 5
For those of you who are new to my blog, there’s a little habit that I have gotten into, which is celebrating my ‘inchstones’ (as opposed to ‘milestones’). All those little baby-steps that are helping me heal are recognized, including my monthly anniversaries of blogging (which I started on January…
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Ghosting, coasting, or boasting: chronic-pain-friends (PART 1)
This post started out VERY long in its first draft. Whilst I try to do my best to minimize how much I write in one go, (because I’m trying to save my pain-brain and yours too much effort), the issue of chronic-pain-friends is a subject that really deserves a decent…
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Meet the Burples
June is Migraine Awareness Month, as I recently mentioned. One of Migraine Australia’s initiatives for this month is the launch of “the Burples” aimed at helping draw attention to migraines in a fun way. There are three Burples on the webpage. As a hemiplegic migraine person, the one that I…
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Chronically Empowered Podcast
This morning, I experienced a full-on jump-scare moment. I opened up LinkedIn while I was having my morning half-cup of coffee, ready to read through what other people had posted last night while I slept, and… OH! There was my chitty-chatty face chitty-chatting away in a video clip! You see,…
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Make peace not war with your chronic pain
Some time ago, I wrote about the neurologist who said you should ‘make friends’ with your migraine. When you’re in the depth of chronic migraine, it is very hard to imagine befriending a foe so painful… but – there is truth in this sentiment. At the very beginning of my…
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‘Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde’ and me…
June is Migraine Awareness Month. It’s rather fitting I feel, given that June is also my birthday-month! Most of June falls into the Zodiac sign of Gemini which uses the symbol of the twins. I don’t know whether it’s a coincidence or not, but the word ‘migraine’ comes from the…
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Simon Cowell’s migraine glasses
Facebook has been around for-ev-er, but I only joined up a couple of months ago to become a part of some of the online migraine communities. Turns out you generally have to be a Facebook-user for longer than 3 months to participate, but I still enjoy reading other people’s posts.…
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Hairdressers with migraines
I finally made it to the hairdressers this morning. After many long months of ‘hibernating’ at home with chronic migraine, I sort of gave up a little bit on my personal appearance and stopped worrying too much about how my grey hair was getting a bit long and lanky. Even…
The Mindful Migraine 