Category: Equipment
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My worst migraine ever
Ok, so the details of this story are going to seem a bit jumbled… because in my mind they were a bit jumbled… because when you have a serious migraine attack, they are always a bit jumbled… * It was Easter time, and I had a bad migraine. Not really…
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Hanging out
I never had a hammock growing up. We had swings when we were little. Some of the swings were store bought, others were improvised from tires or planks and ropes. Still going decades later, my father turned a milk crate into a baby swing for my daughters. I still remember…
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Go go (healing) logo…!!
A while ago, I wrote about how you need to “be prepared” when it comes to planning your day out if you have a migraine. As part of the post, I was umming and ahhing about whether to include a photo of my emergency medical alert keyring. I took the…
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It’s like riding a bike… backwards
Everyone’s heard the saying, “it’s like riding a bike – once you learn how, you never forget it.” The implication is, it’s easy, and once you master the skill, it’s for life. In reality, there ARE a stack of skills that we master in our youth that stay with us…
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Migraine Love Language
We need help when we are sick. Sometimes we ask for it. Sometimes we just hope that our loved ones will read our mind and turn up with what we need when we need it. Sometimes our family and friends want to help so they provide what they think is…
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Be prepared… but like, REALLY prepared
The Boy Scouts have a saying (or at least they did when I was there earning my merit badges while backpacking with leeches) which is “be prepared”. The idea is to hope for the best but plan for the worst. Don’t head off into the wilderness without a bottle of…
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The path of chronic pain
One metaphor that I use a lot to describe healing is the notion of a ‘journey’. As such, I was curious to discover a poster infographic for the ‘path’ into (and out of) chronic pain. The ‘map’ designed by a wellness app called “Curable”, starts at childhood, and covers how…
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My migraine’s marshmallow snowman
OK, so that’s a heading I wasn’t expecting to write anytime soon… but… I have been giving my squishy-stress-snowman a workout the last few days, and I thought he deserved a post of his own. In Australia, there has been a massive craze of things called “fidget spinners” and “stress…
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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…
The Mindful Migraine 