Category: Strategies
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World Migraine Summit
Ok, so I totally tempted fate yesterday by saying that I was ‘over’ my migraine attack. A few hours later, I was back in bed, completely wiped out, no dinner for me. At the risk of showing my age, I feel like one of those antique ‘roly-poly dolls’ or the…
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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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Fuel and migraines
Right at eye height, on the shelf in my fridge this morning, there was a food container. On the side of the container were the words ‘fuel your journey’. It made me think not only about the nutrition that we require to keep our bodies going, but also how quickly…
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Why pain-scales need modifications for chronic migraines
A couple of posts ago (here) I showed you a pain-scale of 1-10 (replicated in the top line of the picture below). In the graphic, I used little faces to show the increasing sense of distress that goes with the increased pain. For irregular migraines the scale works well, you’re…
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Pain-scales for migraines
I have used a numbering system for a long time to describe my migraine pain. It helps me keep track of pain days and trends, helps me identify possible links between migraine triggers and migraine severity, and helps my family and friends gauge how bad I’m feeling. For me, my…
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‘Feeling your face’
One of the strategies that I have developed that has helped me significantly is ‘feeling my face’. Wherever you are right now, (whether it’s lying down, sitting, or standing), loosely holds your hands together in front of you. Now, with your hands staying together – feel your face. Using nothing…
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Re-finding the ‘i’ in ‘Linda’
A year ago, my neurologist told me that in our attempt to reduce my chronic migraines, we had essentially exhausted Western science’s medical interventions. Instead of adjusting my medication (again), he recommended that I begin a more holistic approach to healing. His long list of suggested therapies included counselling, yin…
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Closing the gap on migraines
I have written elsewhere on this blog that one of the aims for my holistic approach to healing has been to reduce triggers and increase my resilience to those triggers. Reducing triggers is something I have done both intuitively and deliberately for years wherever possible. I know glare is a…
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Mindfulness for migraines
Mindfulness is the number one, overarching tool that has helped me reduce my migraine triggers (stress, fatigue, posture) and increase my resilience to the triggers I can not avoid (genes, hormones, climate etc.). As a result, I have managed to reduce my migraines from 3+ days a week (every week for…
The Mindful Migraine 