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UGH – I’m struggling
Late to post today – sorry – but I’m feeling pretty unwell. Not sure why, but the last couple of days have felt like a reversal of all the healing that’s been happening for the last couple of years. I know that I may never be pain free, but it’s…
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Runes, ravens and self-reflection
I try to read as many blogs as I can. Some weeks are a bit of a wash out (I’m too sick, or too busy, or too busy because I’ve been too sick for too long). Other weeks, however, I can cover a lot of distance, and I love every…
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Daily persistent headaches
Today’s post is a summary of another fascinating interview from the World Migraine Summit, this time with Dr Andrew Hershey, a director of neurology at University of Cincinnati. This presentation on ‘new daily persistent headaches’ revealed (again) that headaches and migraines are complex critters (my word not theirs). There were…
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What does it mean to be “on the mend”?
When I was a child in the 1970s, I remember my paternal grandmother always being busy. She was either baking cakes, digging in her veggie patch, cleaning the house – or mending… something… anything… everything. More recently, I’ve noticed that we live in a much more throw-away society. Things are…
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I’M ONE YEAR OLD!!!
Woo hoo – pinch me (gently) – I can hardly believe it – The Mindful Migraine Blog turned one year old today…!! As I’ve mentioned before, I started this blog because I was sad and lonely and couldn’t find anything like it online. I was looking for real-life information about…
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The 4 F-words of trauma
This blog post is a very high-level discussion about how people respond to trauma and is hopefully not upsetting in any way, but it IS about stressors, so you may want to give it a miss. * * * * * For a long time when I was growing up,…
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Layer-cakes for healing
Healing requires many different things to take place, often all at the same time. You need to be meeting with doctors to finesse your medication options. You need to be working on your lifestyle decisions to give yourself the best chance to heal in the least toxic environment. You need…
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Horoscopes for the year ahead
Before I get on a roll about living a life with hyper-positivity, I want to do a shoutout to everyone affected by the fires in California. Fire has always been a reality of life in Australia, but the images I’m seeing of this conflagration are next-level scary. Good luck everyone,…
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Welcome to 2025 (teeth and all)!
I’m baa-aaaack! Welcome to 2025 (can you believe we are already 1/24th of the way through the year!!) I hope that everyone’s year is going as great as can be so far – I missed you all! I finished last year with a reference to a bygone Christmas Day which…
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