Category: Strategies
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Hydration (Part TWO)
At the risk of grossing you all out, today’s post is about the side-effect of drinking lots of water: weeing lots of water. If it’s not your idea of a fun read, feel free to skip it. * * * Urine. Wee. Pee. Piddle. Tinkle. Watering the lemon tree. Sword…
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Progress over perfection
I used to be a bit of a perfectionist. I set high goals for myself. I liked to achieve those goals. Heck, I preferred to overachieve in life wherever possible. “Under promise and over deliver” used to be my humble-brag mantra. Gold stars, pats on the back, A+’s, thumbs up…
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(Re)prioritizing self-care
When my two daughters were babies, my husband and I decided to do a small renovation to the side part of our house. One day, the builder climbed out of the roof space, pale and a bit shaky. “I don’t understand,” he muttered, “the ceiling over the baby beds shouldn’t…
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Creating a gentler language for healing
Not long ago I wrote about the idea of a ‘migraine warrior’. I noted that whilst I understood the motivational intent of the language, I also said that it didn’t always resonate with me, because it is exhausting to always be at war with your pain. Today I want to…
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How to initiate “mindful-mode”
“You can’t lead a horse to water” is an old saying, which I’ve never fully understood. Why would a horse be so reluctant to be led towards water? I’m guessing it would be very difficult to convince a horse to stand in a patch of stinging-nettles and thorns, no matter…
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Migraine’s Secret Sauce*
In Australia there’s currently a hamburger add on TV that keeps replaying an old jingle that goes through all the ingredients that go into the famous hamburger. ‘Secret sauce’ is, of course, included. I also remember there’s a famous chicken brand that loves to promote its ‘seven secret herbs and…
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It’s time to take out the trash (talk)
Most of my internet-time is spent in blog-land; writing my blogposts and visiting as many other people’s blogs as I can to keep myself and other writers motivated. I also spend a little bit of time on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter-X and LinkedIn to post links back to my blog. Sometimes…
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Migraines, by the book
I recently borrowed a book from the library called “Migraines” by Mary E. Williams (2011). It started with a spot-on quote from Andrew Levy’s migraine-memoir, ‘A Brain Wider than the Sky’ (2009): “There is no line between migraine and worrying about migraine…” In the opening section of the book I…
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Free mini-makeover for your bedroom
Mindfulness is a skill which involves being non-judgmentally present in your current moment. This might be an odd sidestep to traditional mindfulness matters, but if you regularly do your meditations or Yoga routines in your bedroom, or you spend a lot of time there due to chronic illness, you can…
The Mindful Migraine 