Category: Mindset
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The rising tide of patient advocacy
Today is the 4th of July, which in the United States of America is called Independence Day. I don’t know enough about the history to talk about it here, but I did spend a bit of time brainstorming the notion of ‘independence’. I was always bought up to be an…
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Can nightmares trigger migraines?
I’ve been doing pretty well with managing my migraines during the day. I stay hydrated and mind my mindset. I’m quite proud of how far I’ve come. Nighttime, however, is a different story. For some reason, up to two or three times a week, I wake up in the middle…
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Being provocatively polarizing… or not.
As well as blogging about my healing journey to reduce my migraine-days and increase joy in my life, I am also (hopefully) in my final year of completing a PhD, I’m the primary contact for my daughters’ school communication, AND I sometimes help my husband with things to do with…
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Ghosting, coasting, or boasting: chronic-pain-friends (PART 2)
Last week I wrote about friends ‘ghosting’ people with chronic pain, and how much it hurts. Today I want to talk about a different friendship arrangement; ‘coasting’. For me, I would suggest that most of my friendships fall into this category. My friends are ‘cruisy’. They’re low-maintenance. We don’t make…
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Gaining awareness: intentionality versus randomness
It’s Migraine Awareness Month, as previously mentioned, and I’ve been thinking a lot about ‘awareness’ versus ‘information overload’. When I first started trying to understand my diagnosis of chronic migraine, I went looking in multiple places to try to find as much information as I could. I was particularly open…
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Angel Number 5
For those of you who are new to my blog, there’s a little habit that I have gotten into, which is celebrating my ‘inchstones’ (as opposed to ‘milestones’). All those little baby-steps that are helping me heal are recognized, including my monthly anniversaries of blogging (which I started on January…
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Dirty dishwater revelations: what your sink is trying to tell you
OK, so head’s up, this is by far the weirdest post I’ve ever made. After I had done the breakfast dishes and a few random items I’d found floating around downstairs (kids!), I went to let the plug out of the kitchen sink. I wasn’t in a good mood or…
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Breakfast for Dinner
When I was growing up, our family aimed to have a proper sit-down dinner 6 nights a week. My father would come home, we’d each sit in our regular spots at the dinner table, and as we ate, my sisters and I would recount what we’d done that day, what…
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Pessimism: is it realistic or wrong?
My daughters listen to a musician named Alec Benjamin. He suited my mood last year as he tends to sing angsty woe-is-me songs. This year, however, I’m trying to ‘lean into’ a more sunshine-and-happiness version of myself in order to heal. There is, nonetheless, one song of his that sometimes…
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