Category: Mindset
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Pain rescue: sometimes you have to save yourself
Today is May the first – May Day. It’s traditionally a European day of ribbon twirling and dancing. But, me being me, it also reminds me of the distress call “Mayday – Mayday!!” I looked up the origins of the phrase, and it apparently comes from the 1920s and is…
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Brain-strain (not pain): Part ONE (questions)
I’ve been talking a lot about how to improve brain health from the point of view of minimizing pain. But I also realized that brain health in general is important; “use it or lose it”, as they say. So, I thought that for something completely different, I’d find three ‘matchstick…
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Creating a (mental) happy place
When I was a child, I used to suffer from insomnia. I would lie in bed and overanalyze what had happened that day… agonize over whether I could have handled things differently… imagine alternative tomorrows… catastrophize a bit. I’m not a huge fan of the concept of a ‘migraine personality’…
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The Boston Marathon and Mount Everest
What do the Boston Marathon and Mount Everest have in common? They seem to be the two most common stories I hear referred to as an (im)possible dream. A dream so big, the dreamer knows it could take them years to achieve, but one which they believe the sacrifice will…
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Being cruisy in carparks
Yesterday’s post “can drafts can cause migraines?” got mixed responses here, and on Instagram and LinkedIn (where I sometimes post links). Some people were ‘heck yeah’, some were ‘I guess so’ and some were ‘meh…’ – which pretty much sums up all my feelings over the last few weeks I’ve…
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Can drafts cause migraines?
A month ago, while I was walking my two dogs, a lady who was visiting a neighbor up the road stopped me. She wanted to chat to my dogs. After her dog-whispering was complete, she started up a conversation with me. She mentioned she wasn’t feeling that well and began…
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Living in the grey (or orange) zone of life
Our language tends to favor a binary (on/off or 1/0) version of events. Life is good/bad, the sky is clear/overcast, people are heroes/villains, decisions are right/wrong, play a game and you’re a winner/loser, and in our final hour we may well turn out to be saved/damned. If you used traditional…
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Press the (fishy) doorbell – then clap – please!
The internet is a weird and wonderful place, no doubt about it. The other day when I was on Tumblr I read a fantastic post about a fish-doorbell. Yep, you read that correctly. In the Netherlands they have lots of canals, and on those canals they also have ‘locks’ which…
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We are ALL influencers
After spending a few weeks on Instagram I have become hyperaware of ‘influencers’. In Australia, and in my line of work, I don’t really hear much about them, except the occasional story when one gets arrested returning from an overseas travel trip that ‘sponsors’ paid for (sponsors who turned out…
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