Category: Resilience
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“Medical retirement” – leaving your job because of migraines
Dehenna Davison (1993-) was born in South Yorkshire, England. After studying British Politics and Legislative Studies at the University of Hull, she was elected as MP for Bishop Auckland during the 2019 general election. [I hope that’s right, because it comes from Wikipedia and as an Australian, the titles and places…
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Is it OK to feel sorry for yourself?
I’ve always been a fan of John Denver (the music, more than the moppy-haired-man). Perhaps it’s because I have a fair bit of farming in my family tree, or just because I’m a back-to-nature kinda gal when possible. His songs ‘Rocky Mountain High’ and ‘Take Me Home Country Road’ are…
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Compassion for Overwhelm
Quite by accident, I came across a mindful-meditation teacher called Tara Brach. I found her while searching for information about self-compassion and discovered that she had written a book called ‘Radical Compassion’. I haven’t had a chance to look into it yet, but my attention was caught by a video…
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Brain-strain (not pain): Part TWO (answers)
SPOILER ALERT: Today’s post includes the answers to the three matchstick riddles I offered on Tuesday. If you would like to go back and try the puzzles before you see the answers, go to the link here: * * * * * Ok then, for everyone else, how’d you go?…
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Pain rescue: sometimes you have to save yourself
Today is May the first – May Day. It’s traditionally a European day of ribbon twirling and dancing. But, me being me, it also reminds me of the distress call “Mayday – Mayday!!” I looked up the origins of the phrase, and it apparently comes from the 1920s and is…
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Brain-strain (not pain): Part ONE (questions)
I’ve been talking a lot about how to improve brain health from the point of view of minimizing pain. But I also realized that brain health in general is important; “use it or lose it”, as they say. So, I thought that for something completely different, I’d find three ‘matchstick…
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Sacrifice
Today (the 25th of April) in Australia and New Zealand, is ANZAC Day (the acronym stands for “Australian and New Zealand Army Corps”). Since 1916, it’s been a National Day of Remembrance which pays respect to all those who served and died in all the wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping missions our…
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Being cruisy in carparks
Yesterday’s post “can drafts can cause migraines?” got mixed responses here, and on Instagram and LinkedIn (where I sometimes post links). Some people were ‘heck yeah’, some were ‘I guess so’ and some were ‘meh…’ – which pretty much sums up all my feelings over the last few weeks I’ve…
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Press the (fishy) doorbell – then clap – please!
The internet is a weird and wonderful place, no doubt about it. The other day when I was on Tumblr I read a fantastic post about a fish-doorbell. Yep, you read that correctly. In the Netherlands they have lots of canals, and on those canals they also have ‘locks’ which…
The Mindful Migraine 