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My bloomin’ orchids
I love reading other blogs, and while I was out and about a while ago, I came across a post: Waiting for trees to bud is good because it is hard – Incense and Crayons. Towards the end of the post the author writes: “This practice of watching trees grow…
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Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) for chronic pain
A few weeks ago I read a post on LinkedIn by Migraine Ireland that referred to something called Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT). I’ve never heard of it before, but it instantly caught my attention as something that might be helpful for my healing journey. In their post they wrote: “Compassion…
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A quick history of pillows
When you suffer from chronic migraines you spend a lot of time lying down. When you spend a lot of time lying down, you become very particular about what your head is resting on. This tends to turn you into a pillow-perfectionist or a cushion-connoisseur. The problem with experimenting with…
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Mitochondrial dysfunction and migraines
OK – first up: Disclaimer – I am not a doctor or scientist – so anything that I write here is my best guess at understanding a complex medical subject – please speak to your own healthcare provider about your condition and do NOT take medical advice from this post!…
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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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Bathroom bliss
Bathrooms are one of the most notoriously expensive rooms in a house to renovate, but they can also be one of the most blissful rooms if they’re done right. I’m not going to try to convince you to install a new bidet or advocate the joys of rain-showers or those…
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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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Team Challenge – are you game?
When I used to work full-time in the city, every coffee shop that I went to had a Loyalty Card: “buy 9 coffees – get one free”. Of course, you had to keep track of all the cards in your handbag and find the right one for the right shop…
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