Category: Metaphor

  • When your healing journey hits a roadblock

    When your healing journey hits a roadblock

    I’ve written before that I have had to change my healing-metaphor from time to time. There’s the shift I made from thinking of myself as a “migraine warrior” to becoming more of a “gentle gardener” in order to make peace with my pain. Then there’s the shift from thinking of…

  • The bird pilgrimage

    The bird pilgrimage

    Some time ago I read a post on the “Holistic Fibro Fighter” blog [which seems to have gone silent] which the author, Jane Taylor, titled “A pilgrimage of self-care”. The title gave me a zingy “wow- yes!” moment, because the word ‘pilgrimage’ instantly resonated with my healing journey. It explains…

  • Migraine = an own goal

    Migraine = an own goal

    Today’s post is a book review – sort of – it’s about “Splitting: the inside story on headaches” (2020) by physiologist and neuroscientist Amanda Ellison. The reason it’s only ‘sort of’ a book review, is that it was a pretty intense book, for a potentially more medical-trained readership, so I…