Category: Resilience
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Chronic pain and the Inner Child
I decided on the first day that I started this blog that I would not write about anything that requires a ‘trigger warning’. I don’t think this post crosses that line, but it does talk about psychological issues, and as such, you might prefer not to keep reading. (Disclaimer…
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My sister’s pain
A few weeks ago, I posted about being interviewed for a new podcast called Chronically Empowered. About the same time, I did what I guess most people would do: humble-brag. I sent the link to my parents and two younger sisters, saying something like “I’ve started this blog where I’m…
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It’s time to take out the trash (talk)
Most of my internet-time is spent in blog-land; writing my blogposts and visiting as many other people’s blogs as I can to keep myself and other writers motivated. I also spend a little bit of time on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter-X and LinkedIn to post links back to my blog. Sometimes…
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Winning, even when dreams don’t come true
A while ago I wrote about the Boston Marathon and Mount Everest being common (im)possible dreams. I noted in that post that my neurologist had done the Boston Marathon (I think), and that my friend and I ‘mostly’ made it up the Nepalese mountain to reach Annapurna base camp, when…
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Being provocatively polarizing… or not.
As well as blogging about my healing journey to reduce my migraine-days and increase joy in my life, I am also (hopefully) in my final year of completing a PhD, I’m the primary contact for my daughters’ school communication, AND I sometimes help my husband with things to do with…
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Vincent van Gogh’s pain
There are rumors going around the internet that several ‘alternative’ artists from the past, suffered from migraines with visual-auras. We’ll never know for sure, but I’m skeptical that an artist could have migraines on a regular basis, and no one would record them as being ‘poorly’ in their biographical notes.…
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Fridge poetry for pain
Chances are you know someone who has Fridge Poetry; those little magnetic words that you can arrange and rearrange to make poems on your fridge. I used to have an irrational jealousy of people who owned them. Why I never went out and bought my own set, I don’t know……
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Ghosting, coasting, or boasting: chronic-pain-friends (PART 3)
Over the last couple of weeks, I have written about how chronic pain can affect friendships. First, I addressed the not-so-fun issue of ‘ghosting’ and then I wrote about those cruisy ‘coasting’ friends, with a reminder that you have to keep up your end of the friendship-bargain so they don’t…
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#shadesformigraine
I know I said I wasn’t going to ‘show my face’ here again for a while, but I forgot about the initiative that is always run on the 21st of June by migraine advocates around the world. They pick this date because it is the summer solstice; the longest, sunniest,…
The Mindful Migraine 