Category: Happenings
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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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Studio Migraine: a voice for women with migraine
Since starting my Mindful Migraine Blog in mid-January of this year, I have spent as much time (if not more) reading other people’s blogs as I have writing on my own. As part of those “travels” to other places near and far I have met many, many wonderful people (chances…
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Tag Team Blogging
The other day I received a note from one of my blogging besties, Robert over at Things I Have Thought Of. The comment said something like “tag you’re it”. My first thought was, “oh yay! Like the game! How fun!” But then my second thought was “but wait… what comes…
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How to initiate “mindful-mode”
“You can’t lead a horse to water” is an old saying, which I’ve never fully understood. Why would a horse be so reluctant to be led towards water? I’m guessing it would be very difficult to convince a horse to stand in a patch of stinging-nettles and thorns, no matter…
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Half a year old!
Can you believe it?!?@#$!?! The Mindful Migraine is 6 months old today! I usually go for an image of sparklers to mark the anniversaries of my monthly inchstones, but today’s a BIG date, so I went all out and exploded some fireworks as my post-image! When I first made my…
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“Migraine and me” & a Zoom meeting invite
Anyone who’s visited my blog for more than a few weeks knows that I absolutely LOVE doing mid-monthly shout-outs for other blogs that I’ve read and enjoyed. I’ll do that again on the 17th of July (my blog-anniversary), but today’s blog post is a bit different; it’s a shout-out to…
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The rising tide of patient advocacy
Today is the 4th of July, which in the United States of America is called Independence Day. I don’t know enough about the history to talk about it here, but I did spend a bit of time brainstorming the notion of ‘independence’. I was always bought up to be an…
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Ghosting, coasting, or boasting: chronic-pain-friends (PART 3)
Over the last couple of weeks, I have written about how chronic pain can affect friendships. First, I addressed the not-so-fun issue of ‘ghosting’ and then I wrote about those cruisy ‘coasting’ friends, with a reminder that you have to keep up your end of the friendship-bargain so they don’t…
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