Category: Resilience
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Drinking water in slow motion
“Drink more water” is the catch cry of chronic pain curers and well-wishers everywhere: this post is not about hydration… not the normal sort anyway. This morning was like any other. Tai Chi, farewell hubby, walk the dogs, and then the manic scramble to get the kids out the door…
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Wall Pilates for migraines
Wall Pilates is a TikTok trend I heard about in my news feed (I’m not even on TikTok?!). Normally I would be instantly averse to anything that comes to me via ‘recent trends’, but I confess I have been interested in trying Pilates for a while now, and I thought…
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Body-shaming
In Australia we have a ‘reality’ television show in which people who have been unlucky in love are paired up by experts, and then ‘married at first sight’. The couples are then expected to get to know each other and fall madly in love, all while the cameras are rolling. …
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Make your bed
In 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven, gave the formal address to graduating students at the University of Austin in Texas. As a highly decorated Navy Seal it was perhaps no surprise that he advocated the importance of discipline and determination. What was a little more surprising was how he advocated…
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Migraines and car crashes
In Australia, you can get your Learners License when you turn 16, and then sit a driving test for your Provisional License when you are 17. When I went for my driving test (decades ago), my examiner told me that I had done everything right and broken no laws, but…
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Goldilocks, routines and migraines
When I first started this blog as a New Year’s resolution to myself, I was mostly posting to keep track of all the links that had worked for me, and in the hope that they might one day help a couple of other people. I uploaded about 10 posts on…
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Migraines in The Matrix
Sometimes it can feel like you’re living in an alternate reality to everyone else, like the movie The Matrix. This is not, however, the sort of Matrix I want to talk about today. There will be no advice on how to bend spoonies, for example. (As an aside – if…
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Love and migraines
Happy Valentine’s Day to the romantic souls amongst you. The day apparently originated as a means of honoring the martyr St Valentine, who used to administer services, including marriage, to the early Christians of the Roman Empire (and was killed for his actions). The more you read, the more you…
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Metamorphosis and migraines
In a recent post I wrote about ‘Re-finding the I in Linda’. I spoke about wanting to minimize the impact migraine was having on my identity and reclaim a sense of my old self. I’ve since realized that approach, though natural, is potentially misguided. It’s unlikely that I’ll ever be…
The Mindful Migraine 