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“Good doggy”
Ok, so today’s post is a bit odd… but stick with me! I was watching a documentary about the neuroscience of dogs (as you do) and there were so many things that felt relevant to my healing journey… again… stick with me. As the mother of two fur-babies, there were…
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Bedroom basics for pain-isolation
When I get migraines, I become extremely sensitive to light and noise. ‘Normal’ sunlight suddenly seems way too bright, and people talking becomes amplified in my head, as if someone turned the volume up to 11 on the 1-10 dial. My traditional treatment was to go to the quietest, darkest…
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Bellamy Young flying the flag for migraines
As an Australian, it seems a bit hit and miss what news we receive from other countries around the world. Some things that appear in my news feed appear “brand new” to me, but turn out to have been around for a while. For example, the Headache Alliance is “a…
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Does mustard help migraines?!?
A little while ago a reader called Angelina sent me a link to a Facebook video that showed someone putting their feet in a bowl of warm water and mustard and said, “I saw this and thought of you”. Now, it’s not every day that people associate me with mustard,…
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3 years (un)well
In Australia, today is the King’s Birthday holiday. I think it’s typically the second Monday in June that we all get off work and school to celebrate the monarch of England who still officially “rules” Australia ever since it was discovered by Captain Cook in 1788 and colonized soon after.…
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Purple reign
The first Friday in June is traditionally Migraine Awareness Day in Australia. That’s today! I can’t, however, bring myself to write “Happy Migraine Day” – instead, I thought I’d write a post about the color purple. Everywhere I looked on the fundraising sites, it was purple, purple, purple. The purple…
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Compassionate communication
As the mother of two teenage daughters, I feel like I am perpetually putting my foot in my mouth and messing things up. I love my children without measure and would never mean to hurt them… and yet… even I can say things that are less than all-loving. My eldest…
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Guest post: “Thirty Years with Migraine” by Celine
Today’s post is written by someone other than me – Celine, founder of Seesaw Health, outlines her experience of living with migraine, how better breathing helped her heal, AND how she then used that learning to set up a business aimed at reducing people’s chronic pain. It’s a very inspirational…
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“That’s sick!”
In Australia, the phrase “sick” is used in slang to mean “that’s fantastic” or “wow – that’s so cool”. One kid might reveal the gift they got for their birthday, for example, and all the other kids say, “that’s so sick!” Another kid might come a cropper off their skateboard…
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