Category: Metaphor
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The Migraine Mexican-Wave
A while ago I shared a post I found on social media, about neuro-immune lag and the 48-hour protocol. The idea is that migraines are a ‘threshold’ condition, where our brains can only take so much over-stimulus before they crack and send us into migraine-mode. That post (here) explained that…
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The Madwoman in the Attic
When I was in my teens and 20s, I went through a goth-girl stage. (You can see my photo on the Gothic tab of this blog.) I took to wearing all black, dying my hair ebony, and heaping on the kohl eyeliner. This stage also involved me reading ‘gothic’ books,…
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The Silva Method for Migraines
Some time ago, I wrote about the power of alpha-theta-waves for healing. Our brains are constantly producing brain-waves, and the ‘optimum’ state for deep relaxation is apparently when we are in an alpha-theta state. Alpha-theta waves First up, a quick recount if you missed the earlier post: Theta waves appear…
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What is neuro-immune lag?
Over and over I remind you: DON’T take medical advice off the internet. And I mean it. But. I’m also guilty of letting little tidbits of information tweak my curiosity and send me off to investigate more. That’s how I landed on the concept of ‘neuro-immune lag’. PainNP is a…
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“The Vagus Nerve Reset”
For a long time now, I’ve been saying that the biggest step forward in my healing journey was learning how to calm down my over-stressed (potentially broken) nervous system. I’ve previously written about the Vagus Nerve in particular, and my Nervous Breakthrough in more general terms… that’s why I was…
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The opposite of The Placebo Effect
I don’t identify with the term ‘pessimism’. I see myself as ‘rationally realistic’. My husband, an ‘eternal optimist’, would probably disagree. I’ve written before about the version of pessimism that I carry through life (which can be summarized as ‘hope for the best / plan for the worst’). The prior…
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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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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…
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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…