Category: Creativity

  • Fridge poetry for pain

    Fridge poetry for pain

    Chances are you know someone who has Fridge Poetry; those little magnetic words that you can arrange and rearrange to make poems on your fridge. I used to have an irrational jealousy of people who owned them. Why I never went out and bought my own set, I don’t know……

  • Make a healing mandala

    Make a healing mandala

    When I first started my holistic healing journey just over a year ago, I woke up and decided I was sick of being sick, and it was time to take things into my own hands so I could get better.  The first thing I did was to write a program…

  • Mindfulness… just sew

    Mindfulness… just sew

    Sewing, cross-stitch, embroidery, knitting… they are all mindful techniques that can create a deep sense of relaxed concentration that becomes something of a state of Zen.  Truly!  I’ve recently been trying long-stitch, and I’m often surprised at how much I get ‘lost in the moment’ and ‘time flies’.  It is…

  • Your migraine needs a mood board!

    Your migraine needs a mood board!

    In architecture, mood-boards are regularly used in the preliminary stages of design.  And for good reason.  The collection of images helps designers and their clients quickly visualize concepts in a way that is more efficient than words alone.  Everyone who looks at the board can see the look and feel…

  • Dancing with migraines

    Dancing with migraines

    As a result of being sick so many days a week, I am not fit. When my neurologist suggested that I take up HIIT to improve my strength and stamina and improve my overall health and wellbeing, I quickly realized it was not for me. The sudden movements just made the pain…