Category: Mindset
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“No mud, no lotus”
Today’s blog post is a book review for Thích Nhất Hạnh’s book “No Mud, No Lotus” which is a practical self-help guide published over 10 years ago in 2014. Before I started to read it, I knew nothing about the book or the author, other than I had heard the…
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Feeling lost… and found
Only a brief post today…. and a trigger warning since I talk about death… * * * * * While I was down the coast some time ago, I went to the beach to walk the dogs. I wasn’t in a great mood. I knew that a walk on the…
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My migraine’s scar howl
I’m no poet, but I love words and what people can do with them. Sometimes I read the poems on other people’s blogs and something in the combination of sounds and sentences makes me ooh and aah. Way back at the beginning of the year, I was on the Ink…
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Everything is under control… maybe
In the past I’ve talked a tough game about “progress over perfection” and how I understand the difference between “the circle of control and the circle of influence” (here) – but the reality is, I remain a mid-level control freak… OK, eye-roll… upper-middle-level control freak. I like to know what’s…
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Sage, coach, cheerleader or filter-less friend…?
What am I to you? It probably doesn’t matter, but I have been thinking a lot about which kinds of people I prefer to take advice from, and equally importantly, which kind of person YOU might prefer to listen to. Each ‘label’ represents a slightly different approach to sharing wisdom. …
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Lessons learnt from Icarus
When I was young, I was an enormous fan of Greek Myths and Legends. I was in awe of Zeus on Mt Olympus looking down on humanity, and adored the idea of Apollo, the sun-god riding a gilded chariot across the skies. Soon, single words were enough to conjure up…
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I am more than my body
Across the centuries and all cultures, there has always been a sense of something ‘beyond’ us mere mortals. Perhaps because we ‘travel’ in our dreams, humans have no problem believing in this other realm. Moreover, there has also always been people who claim they can act as the intermediary between…
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Keep doing today
A while ago I wrote a post titled “Migraine Snakes and Ladders” about a rough migraine I experienced which involved a lot of projectile vomiting (sorry). It was a pretty grim post reading back through it. I confessed to feeling distressed by the setback in my health and feeling bitter…
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Welcome to my revelation
Every now and then something “clicks” in my mind; thoughts align (or collide) and I think “ah ha”. It doesn’t happen very often when it comes to migraine material (I had my first migraine when I was 11 years old), but with all the reading I’ve been doing, I still…
The Mindful Migraine 