Category: Resilience
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“A memoir of migraine survival”
Today is a book review of “10: a memoir of migraine survival” (2018) written by Danielle Newport Fancher – here’s her website: Books | Migraine Writer in which she refers to herself this way: “Danielle Newport Fancher lives a double-life. In one life, she’s a smart, upbeat, and happy 30-year-old;…
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Bedroom… where are you?
People getting lost in their own home is a real thing. It’s a condition called Developmental Topographical Disorientation (DTD). It’s not the “where am I?” kind of moment that happens when you wake up from a Nanna-Nap and can’t remember how you got on the sun-lounger. It’s also not the…
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“Becoming bulletproof”
OK – so the title of this post is a lot more… macho (maybe)… than my usual posts – and it’s why I countered it with the “no violence” words in the cover image. “Becoming bulletproof” is not my phrase; it’s the book title of US Secret Service agent Evy…
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When your healing journey hits a roadblock
I’ve written before that I have had to change my healing-metaphor from time to time. There’s the shift I made from thinking of myself as a “migraine warrior” to becoming more of a “gentle gardener” in order to make peace with my pain. Then there’s the shift from thinking of…
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“Chronic pain management”
Today’s post is a (long, but totally worth it) book review of pain psychologist David Walton’s “Chronic Pain Management” (2021). It hooked me in, because the cover seemed to be calling to me from the library shelf, and the opening words made me say a vigorous “yes!” in my head:…
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The bird pilgrimage
Some time ago I read a post on the “Holistic Fibro Fighter” blog [which seems to have gone silent] which the author, Jane Taylor, titled “A pilgrimage of self-care”. The title gave me a zingy “wow- yes!” moment, because the word ‘pilgrimage’ instantly resonated with my healing journey. It explains…
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Everybody panic… or NOT!
To get into the city of Sydney from where I live, you can drive in, but parking is limited and can cost up to $50 for a couple of hours. So instead, I catch the train. It takes about the same amount of time (one hour) but costs a fraction…
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We all have bad days
When I think of Charles Darwin, I think of an intellectual giant – someone who spent decades of his life investigating science and leaving behind an enormous legacy of thought-provoking research, such that he became a larger-than-life symbol of dedication and… …well, it turns out he was all of that,…
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Have you got grit?
I recently came across an online quiz (of 10 questions) that determines how much “grit” you have. According to my attempt, (I got 4.4 out of 5), it means I’ve got more grit than 90% of Americans. Yay me. Do I though? Or am I just stubborn? Or is grit…
The Mindful Migraine 