Category: Resilience
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We are ALL influencers
After spending a few weeks on Instagram I have become hyperaware of ‘influencers’. In Australia, and in my line of work, I don’t really hear much about them, except the occasional story when one gets arrested returning from an overseas travel trip that ‘sponsors’ paid for (sponsors who turned out…
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Being out of sync with the rest of the world
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve noticed that the blogosphere is overflowing with foreign phrases such as “snow melt” and “frost thaw”, and pictures of blooming flowers, including those on my new-blogger-friends Amy and Edward’s pages. “Spring has sprung!” all the pictures declare. Only it hasn’t. It’s the start…
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Domino thinking and anxiety
After I posted yesterday’s note where my mind was ‘spinning out’, I realized that some of you might think I’m a bit of a looney. That may be true, but I also trained myself to think that way – for better or for worse. When I was at university and…
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Is there such a thing as over-nurturing?
As I was watering the parsley pot plant on my kitchen windowsill this morning, I tried to figure out why it looked a bit sadder than normal. I realized that the soil was saturated. Someone else – possibly everyone else – in my family was watering the parsley pot plant.…
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Having a migraine on TV
I want to add to my series of blog posts the occasional post about other people and how migraine effects their lives. The first in this series comes from an event I remember from 13 years ago (I can’t believe it’s been that long!). A reporter named Serene Branson was…
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Personal boundaries for chronic pain
Somewhere, long ago, I remember hearing the notion that ‘personal boundaries are like picket fences.’ The idea was that you can be immersed in a community and set apart. Fences act as a demarcation between a shared space and what is private. They create the reassurance of a line that…
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Power poses for pain
I tend to avoid ‘bang-crash’ movies, but the other night I was feeling good, so I watched the first half of Marvel “Avengers”. Suddenly something occurred to me. Other than the Mark Ruffalo character (who has the potential to turn into the Hulk if he gets aggravated), everyone else in…
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Skiing lessons for migraineurs
Ok, so now I’ve got your attention, this blog post IS about skiing, but only by way of a memory that serves as a lesson. When I was about ten years old, I was lucky enough to go on a holiday to the snow with my family. My two younger…
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Pet therapy for migraines
This post is about ‘pets for migraines’ – as opposed to ‘pets with migraines’ – which is really too terrible to think about… Although if you do think about it, it makes you wonder what specifically it is about the human brain that sets us apart from animals. Perhaps one…
The Mindful Migraine 