Category: Mindset
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Controlling chronic migraine
The Migraine Summit is currently underway, and I’ve watched 2 of the first 4 sessions available. So far, I’ve been impressed with the quality of the speakers and the material they cover in the 30-minute sessions. There’s enough material in each session to make a blog post, but I won’t…
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Body-shaming
In Australia we have a ‘reality’ television show in which people who have been unlucky in love are paired up by experts, and then ‘married at first sight’. The couples are then expected to get to know each other and fall madly in love, all while the cameras are rolling. …
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Make your bed
In 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven, gave the formal address to graduating students at the University of Austin in Texas. As a highly decorated Navy Seal it was perhaps no surprise that he advocated the importance of discipline and determination. What was a little more surprising was how he advocated…
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Goldilocks, routines and migraines
When I first started this blog as a New Year’s resolution to myself, I was mostly posting to keep track of all the links that had worked for me, and in the hope that they might one day help a couple of other people. I uploaded about 10 posts on…
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(Un)solicited advice for migraines
As I was walking the dogs at dawn yesterday, the silence was broken by the sound of two women jogging up behind me. Even before they got close, I could hear their conversation. The first woman was saying something to the effect of “I’ve been running for years, but she’s…
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Free-writing for migraines
In 1924 André Breton published his Surrealist Manifesto in which he encouraged artists to use ‘automatic’ or ‘free’ writing, where “the first draft is your last”. You set your clock for, let’s say two minutes, and then you write, without stopping or overthinking, and definitely no editing. Here’s my two…
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Love and migraines
Happy Valentine’s Day to the romantic souls amongst you. The day apparently originated as a means of honoring the martyr St Valentine, who used to administer services, including marriage, to the early Christians of the Roman Empire (and was killed for his actions). The more you read, the more you…
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Fuel and migraines
Right at eye height, on the shelf in my fridge this morning, there was a food container. On the side of the container were the words ‘fuel your journey’. It made me think not only about the nutrition that we require to keep our bodies going, but also how quickly…
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Metamorphosis and migraines
In a recent post I wrote about ‘Re-finding the I in Linda’. I spoke about wanting to minimize the impact migraine was having on my identity and reclaim a sense of my old self. I’ve since realized that approach, though natural, is potentially misguided. It’s unlikely that I’ll ever be…
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