Category: Mindfulness
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The art of distraction
I have a bestie over on LinkedIn, a lovely lady called Tracy (who has inspired me previously with her idea that Japanese Kintsugi pottery is a metaphor for living with pain). Well, she recently sent me a photo of a pretty pink floral painting she had made while she was…
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Guest Post: Miffed at Midlife
As you know, as well as blogging away, I also love reading other people’s blogs. That’s how I came across Jenny and her great blog “Miffed at Midlife”. In one of those nice moments of serendipity where you recognize a lot of similarities in how you think and approach life,…
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Visualizing movement for chronic pain and insomnia
One of the things that I have discovered after practicing Tai Chi, Qigong or Yin Yoga often enough is that you start to gain ‘muscle memory’. Your body begins to recall the repeated actions, and they get easier and more automatic. Remember, I’m very much a beginner in all three…
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Broken pottery and your chronic pain
First up – a quick shoutout to the people who joined the zoom gatherings over the weekend; I appreciate you so much for your generous support of my baby-blog and I loved getting the opportunity to have a real conversation with you all: you’re the best! (If you missed out,…
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Chronic pain and the Inner Child
I decided on the first day that I started this blog that I would not write about anything that requires a ‘trigger warning’. I don’t think this post crosses that line, but it does talk about psychological issues, and as such, you might prefer not to keep reading. (Disclaimer…
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EFT tapping for migraines
About a month ago I attended an online seminar about mindfulness and was introduced to the idea of “EFT”. Not knowing what it was about, the host then asked us to follow a sequence where we began ‘tapping’ ourselves. She would suggest something positive we should say (for example “even…
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Fridge poetry for pain
Chances are you know someone who has Fridge Poetry; those little magnetic words that you can arrange and rearrange to make poems on your fridge. I used to have an irrational jealousy of people who owned them. Why I never went out and bought my own set, I don’t know……
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Compassion for Overwhelm
Quite by accident, I came across a mindful-meditation teacher called Tara Brach. I found her while searching for information about self-compassion and discovered that she had written a book called ‘Radical Compassion’. I haven’t had a chance to look into it yet, but my attention was caught by a video…
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Is there such a thing as over-nurturing?
As I was watering the parsley pot plant on my kitchen windowsill this morning, I tried to figure out why it looked a bit sadder than normal. I realized that the soil was saturated. Someone else – possibly everyone else – in my family was watering the parsley pot plant.…
The Mindful Migraine 