Category: Strategies
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3 little piggies (and a migraine)
A while ago I wrote about the blogger Diana and her site The Oake Raven. She wrote back to thank me for the shoutout and mentioned that the rune I had pulled (here) was akin to being a “house that withstands the storm” – and now I can actually see…
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Save enough winkles and you’ll soon have a wonkel
About 1,000 years ago when I was working full-time in a full-on role as a project manager, I used to have a guilty obsession: “the breakfast of champions”. It was a takeaway coffee with a chocolate donut that I used to buy just before heading into my office cubicle. The…
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What is “interoception”?
I’m a blog-hopper as you all know – jumping from my blog, to yours, to newbies… and it was while I was jumping all over the place that I came across a new blog called: Unmasking Eve. In the Welcome to 2025 blog post, there was a specific phrase that…
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Are you a crybaby?
Just after the 2024 Olympics, I read an article in a publication called ‘The Atlantic’ which was titled The Crybaby Olympics by Christopher Beam. I now can’t open it without a subscription, but I took a copy of the article’s tagline: “Sports have always had sore losers. But based on…
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Conditioning and pain
Ever heard of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849–1936)? He was a physiologist who did experiments with dogs. Put simply, he would ring a bell each time he served the puppies their dinner. After repeating the routine often enough, he could ring a bell, and the dogs would salivate even if there…
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Wash that pain right out of your head
When I was younger, I used to be a complete sucker for a musical on TV. “The Sound of Music”, “West Side Story”, and “Greece” all come to mind, as well as “The King and I”. As a teenager, I then went through a stage (pun intended) where I loved…
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Conducting a premortem on yourself
OK. So, the idea of conducting a premortem on yourself sounds incredibly depressing – but – if you think about it, it makes sense… sort of. I came across the idea early in the year when the majority of news articles were about making New Years Resolutions. The Wall Street…
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Turns out I’m more than “a brain on a stick”
I started The Mindful Migraine Blog in January 2024 as a New Year’s Resolution. In my mind it was a stand-alone endeavor. Feel pain – write about it. Encounter a trick that helps reduce that pain – write about it. Keep writing, and keep waiting for people to “find you”…
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Studio Migraine AND “what is rolfing?”
Feeling a bit better today – thank you for all your kind words yesterday – they help a lot! First up – here’s the link to the podcast I mentioned yesterday where I spoke to Ellen from Studio Migraine: it’s called Studio Migraine meets The Mindful Migraine blogger Linda. I’m…
The Mindful Migraine 