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Merit badges for adulting
When I was young, I was a Boy Scout. It’s true! In Australia at least, if you’re aged over 14 you can join the Boy Scouts as a Venturer. That’s what I was. We used to go hiking, camp in the snow, sail, explore, get lost, have fun, live our…
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Manifesting with blue ink on white paper
I usually do the ironing on a Sunday afternoon to get the family ready for the week ahead. It’s not one of my favorite chores, so I often listen to podcasts while I do it (it’s my way of remixing my life like a DJ!). In one of the podcasts,…
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Bed rotting for migraines
There is a TikTok trend that has been going around long enough now, and gaining enough interest, that Time Magazine has weighed in on the subject: Bed Rotting. (Here’s the link to the article: Is Bed Rotting Bad for You? | TIME) The idea behind bed rotting is that you…
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Stating the understated
Yesterday I wrote about receiving advice from Julius Caesar in a dream. I ummed and ahhed about whether to include information about his death in the post. I decided against it, because I wanted the post to end on an upbeat tone. The reason I considered including it, is the…
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Advice from Julius Caesar
Last night I had a dream in which two teenage siblings used some high-tech-phone-tapping combined with some good old-fashioned ear-to-door snooping to uncover two secrets; their parents were spies for the government, and a gang of meanies was about to kidnap the spy-parents. The crooks soon burst into the house…
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Serious side-eye needed!
Potentially off topic, I know, but I was reading a ten-year-old magazine the other day (I’d like to pretend it was in a doctor’s office, but it was actually (inexplicably) on my bookshelf). Halfway through the magazine I came across the image of a lovely farmhouse in an idyllic, arcadian,…
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Visualizing movement for chronic pain and insomnia
One of the things that I have discovered after practicing Tai Chi, Qigong or Yin Yoga often enough is that you start to gain ‘muscle memory’. Your body begins to recall the repeated actions, and they get easier and more automatic. Remember, I’m very much a beginner in all three…
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The path of chronic pain
One metaphor that I use a lot to describe healing is the notion of a ‘journey’. As such, I was curious to discover a poster infographic for the ‘path’ into (and out of) chronic pain. The ‘map’ designed by a wellness app called “Curable”, starts at childhood, and covers how…
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Bitter isn’t better
A while ago I saw a note on social media that went something like “I hope that every time I am misdiagnosed or medically gaslit, doctors all across the world stub a toe and suffer intense pain”. I confess similar thoughts have crossed my mind from time to time; there’s…
The Mindful Migraine 