Category: Mindset
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Go go (healing) logo…!!
A while ago, I wrote about how you need to “be prepared” when it comes to planning your day out if you have a migraine. As part of the post, I was umming and ahhing about whether to include a photo of my emergency medical alert keyring. I took the…
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“Mindfulness and it’s discontents”
The more I learn about mindfulness, the more I discover there is also push-back. If mindfulness is a ‘movement’, then there are those who are advocates and those who are not. The internet is full of the first camp, and you don’t have to look too hard to find someone…
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It’s like riding a bike… backwards
Everyone’s heard the saying, “it’s like riding a bike – once you learn how, you never forget it.” The implication is, it’s easy, and once you master the skill, it’s for life. In reality, there ARE a stack of skills that we master in our youth that stay with us…
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Battlefield versus Farmland
I know I occasionally harp on about this, but the “Migraine Warrior” label isn’t for everyone – I prefer something gentler, more organic, more aligned with a garden-like-metaphor. I know it might annoy others who feel very passionately that the ‘warrior’ label is the right way to go – it…
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The power of positivity
Don’t ask me why, but the other day it occurred to me how many ‘crosses’ there are in my life. I spend a lot of time at pharmacists, and there’s always a red (blue or green) cross on the signage. My husband has Maltese heritage, so my house is filled…
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Wearing a mask / Resting B!@#$ Face
I couldn’t decide what to call today’s post. The polite version of what I want to write about relates to “wearing a mask” when you live with chronic pain. I often find myself smiling politely to people when I really feel like sleeping / sighing / crying. It’s not the…
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Anxiety and migraines
Not too long ago I flicked through a self-discovery workbook that I found, titled “Wanting What You Have” (1998) by Timothy Miller (Ph.D.). The book had the feeling of a hybrid genre – part Cognitive Behavior Therapy (your thoughts influence your behavior which influences your thoughts) and part Buddhism (promoting…
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Whispers and screams
The other day I read a comment on the blog Thriving Chronicles – it immediately struck me as so simple and yet deeply profound: “I try to listen to my body when it whispers, so it doesn’t have to scream!” My goodness – why hadn’t I thought of that!?! This…
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Mo(u)rning
It is human to grieve. Necessary. We need to acknowledge loss, to make space for it, and time. You should give yourself full permission to feel deep, heart-breaking-sadness, and there should be no shame in having a good old cry… about whatever, or whoever it is that you’re missing… But…
The Mindful Migraine 