Category: Happenings

  • Ghosting, coasting, or boasting: chronic-pain-friends (PART 3)

    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…

  • Meet the Burples

    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…

  • Chronically Empowered Podcast

    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,…