Category: Resilience
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Happy Holidays with “Revertigo”
Many years ago, I came across the neologism “revertigo”. Even without knowing the details, I had a sense of the concept from the elements of the made-up word: revert + vertigo. The article which the term appeared in explained that revertigo relates to how quickly we fall back into our…
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Rise (and rise again)
Music makes a huge difference to my ability to deal with pain… and life’s ups and downs in general. I have a channel over on Spotify where I collect relaxing music to listen to when I have a migraine so that I feel less lonely lying around in the dark.…
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The day I met Queen Nefertiti
Many, many, many, years ago, I studied art in high school. One of our major works required us to explore the changing way women were represented in art. I recall that we had to choose three images, from different eras, and then find a way to mix their messages. Strangely,…
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Light me up Scotty…
I’m not a Star Trek fan… I don’t know how, but I missed it all when I was younger and know absolutely nothing about it now… except the “beam me up Scotty” message… This (apparently misquoted-pop-culture) phrase came to mind when I was reading an article about an Australian business……
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PhD’ing with a migraine
I’ve been working part-time on my PhD for a little over 4 years now… and for more than half of that, I’ve had a migraine. It’s a little bit shocking to realize just how much of my study was undertaken in pain. But as I inch my way closer to…
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The power of positivity
Don’t ask me why, but the other day it occurred to me how many ‘crosses’ there are in my life. I spend a lot of time at pharmacists, and there’s always a red (blue or green) cross on the signage. My husband has Maltese heritage, so my house is filled…
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Anxiety and migraines
Not too long ago I flicked through a self-discovery workbook that I found, titled “Wanting What You Have” (1998) by Timothy Miller (Ph.D.). The book had the feeling of a hybrid genre – part Cognitive Behavior Therapy (your thoughts influence your behavior which influences your thoughts) and part Buddhism (promoting…
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Whispers and screams
The other day I read a comment on the blog Thriving Chronicles – it immediately struck me as so simple and yet deeply profound: “I try to listen to my body when it whispers, so it doesn’t have to scream!” My goodness – why hadn’t I thought of that!?! This…
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No spoons (or forks) for me…
A while ago I wrote about the history of “spoons” – the metaphor people with fibromyalgia use to explain how people with chronic pain allocate their limited amounts of energy. Today I want to go into a bit more detail to explain the idea, AND tell you why it doesn’t…
The Mindful Migraine 