Category: Easy
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Butterfly Taps for Every Little Cell
Like so many internet trends, I am often late to the party. Most of the time, I couldn’t give two who-who-hoots… I am who I am. This time though, I wish I had come across two nifty little ideas a little sooner. Why? Because, combining them has been a big…
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When silence hurts (music for migraines)
One of the most obvious side-effects of migraines is the terrible head-in-a-vice pain. Migraines, however, are more than just a ‘bad headache’. In the past I have compared them to a ‘bad hangover‘, which is slightly closer, because a migraine event is a whole-body catastrophe. Symptoms can include: nausea, dizziness,…
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What is ‘soft-hermitting’?
If you live with chronic pain, your bedroom is a big part of your life. More than just a place to go to rest and restore at the end of the day, it is also a retreat and a sanctuary. I call it my “migraine cave” where I hibernate during…
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Self-Guided Meditation
A significant part of my self-healing journey has been re-learning how to meditate. When I was in my 20s I used to attend regular Yoga sessions, and a short guided-meditation was almost always included at the end of the lesson. More recently, I started meditating again as a means of…
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‘My’ first ever podcast episode
OK, so if you’ve visited my blog before, then you know that I feel very conflicted about AI. Two years ago, I was so excited to discover AI could make images for me with the push of a button… and then… the novelty wore off. Especially when the whole internet…
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Advice from page 47
Life is not always easy. That’s why it feels good to know there are other people out there looking out for us; sending us some good vibes. You guys do that for me, whether you know it or not. I feel your kindness even when I’m offline, and I thank…
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DIY Migraine Cave
When a full-blown migraine strikes, there is not a lot you can do other than ‘shelter in place’ as it were; go to a quiet room, close the curtains, and shut the door. For me, I’ll have the company of a heat-pack I place on the right side of my…
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Whale songs for healing
A long time ago I posted about ‘brown noise’ (as opposed to ‘white noise’) and how it can help people heal. Some of the links in the post came from one of my blogging buddies, M’Chels Musings. In her reply to the post, she wrote one of the funniest things…
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The power of perspective
If you’re new here to this blog (welcome!), there’s something you might not know about me: I read, read, read… way more than I write. I read other blogs, I read scientific papers (as a hangover from studying for my PhD), and I read self-help books galore, looking for clues…