Category: Resilience
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When your migraine triggers are a trigger
“What do you think caused this bad migraine?” my husband kindly asks. “I don’t know,” I honestly reply; “yesterday was very hot, so maybe I got overly dehydrated?” If I’m in a reasonable mood the innocent enquiry will end there. If I’m feeling more paingry, then I’m likely to get…
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Aliens… alienated
When I was growing up, the word ‘alien’ was a shorthand way of conjuring up images of E.T. Phoning Home, eating mashed potato mountains while humming an electronic beep-bop tune, or an assortment of green-hued light beams, metal donuts, and other-worldly secrets deliberately concealed or accidentally revealed… oh, and THAT…
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Retro-walking backwards
Not long ago I posted about the Walk for Peace. Whilst last year I wrote about how I say the alphabet backwards to help me get to sleep and another about riding a bicycle backwards. Continuing my interest in both walking and backwardness, I recently wrote about Tai Chi Walking,…
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Be the CEO of your own body
At the beginning of the year, I mentioned the Australian fashion designer Camilla Franks as one of my role models who was going to mentor me (in my imagination). Camilla and I are very different – she lives the colorful and glamorous life of a socialite / traveler, and she…
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A monkey called Punch and his ‘Mommy’
Is it normal to cry when you watch YouTube videos? Perhaps not, but the recent story of Punch the Monkey has got me a bit weepy. Thankfully, things seem to be taking a turn for the better for little Punch-kun (as he’s known in his hometown), which is great news……
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The art of critical ignoring
A short while ago I wrote about how I was choosing to ignore bad news (in a post called “Identity Crisis“). In that post, I referenced a specific strategy that I was trialing: “critical ignoring”. Today’s post explains the idea. In 2022, psychology researchers Stephan Lewandowsky and Ralph Hertwig published a…
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Prepper-Mindfulness
OK, so strange post today. It’s about my New Year’s Revelation. (Sort of.) In Australia, December-to-February is our Summer, and therefore, it’s also our Fire Season. While downloading some data sheets on how best to prepare our property against the threat of a fire, I was pulled up short by…
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Is life becoming Kafkaesque?
I was a teenager when my mother suggested I read Franz Kafka’s novella ‘Metamorphosis’. Spoiler alert – in the opening sequence, a man discovers he has turned into a giant cockroach. The point of the story (I now believe) is that there are occasionally moments of dumb-bad-luck when humans can…
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Choose your own adventure
When I was a youngster, I loved those books where you could choose your own adventure. For example: the main character is trekking along when they arrive at a fork in the road. Which way should they go? If you think left – turn to page 11 / if you…
The Mindful Migraine 