Category: Mindset
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Being out of sync with the rest of the world
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve noticed that the blogosphere is overflowing with foreign phrases such as “snow melt” and “frost thaw”, and pictures of blooming flowers, including those on my new-blogger-friends Amy and Edward’s pages. “Spring has sprung!” all the pictures declare. Only it hasn’t. It’s the start…
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World Health Day
This Sunday, the 7th of April, is World Health Day, and since I tend to be a Monday-to-Friday blogging kinda gal, I thought I’d better mention it today before we head into the weekend. Occupations tend to run in families. On my side of the family-tree there are two architects,…
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Domino thinking and anxiety
After I posted yesterday’s note where my mind was ‘spinning out’, I realized that some of you might think I’m a bit of a looney. That may be true, but I also trained myself to think that way – for better or for worse. When I was at university and…
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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.…
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Personal boundaries for chronic pain
Somewhere, long ago, I remember hearing the notion that ‘personal boundaries are like picket fences.’ The idea was that you can be immersed in a community and set apart. Fences act as a demarcation between a shared space and what is private. They create the reassurance of a line that…
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Skiing lessons for migraineurs
Ok, so now I’ve got your attention, this blog post IS about skiing, but only by way of a memory that serves as a lesson. When I was about ten years old, I was lucky enough to go on a holiday to the snow with my family. My two younger…
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Inchstones and blogrolls
In one of those humbling lessons the universe so often sends me, no sooner had I posted a negative review of the internet, than the internet gifted me with positivity. Moreover, since I only just blogged about ‘inchstones‘ and celebrating all our baby steps, I decided I should share that…
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Twitter-X for chronic pain
I’ve only been on Twitter-X for a few weeks, and it’s been a rollercoaster. On the upside, whilst there’s not a lot of coordinated community activity around #migraines (that I can find), many people have been very generous with their time and answered my questions (about things such as injectable…
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Duck-duck-swan
When I was younger, I found anacronyms helped me remember things. “Roger Of York Gave Battle In Vain” was for the order of the colors of the rainbow. Or you might be old enough to recall “My Very Earnest Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas.” (Of course, kids today no…
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