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Hydration (Part Three)
I’ve written about how we need to keep our bodies hydrated, and how drinking lots of water leads to lots of weeing, and both posts mentioned the recurring phrase of “drink more water!” Today is one last post on hydration based on some feedback from the first two posts: there…
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Healing with colour
I found myself with an hour to spare in the university library recently. On the shelf in the good health section, I came across a book titled “Color Healing Manual” by Pauline Wills (1993). As someone previously trained in design, I quite liked the idea of healing chronic pain with…
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“I have a migraine” is NOT a lie
When I was in my 20s, I worked in the headquarters of a large Australian retail company, project managing the construction of their stores across the country. It was a great job, because I got flown around Australia, and OK, I wasn’t in holiday mode, but I got to see…
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Hydration (Part TWO)
At the risk of grossing you all out, today’s post is about the side-effect of drinking lots of water: weeing lots of water. If it’s not your idea of a fun read, feel free to skip it. * * * Urine. Wee. Pee. Piddle. Tinkle. Watering the lemon tree. Sword…
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Together apart
During the Covid-19 lockdown in Australia, there was a saying that kept doing the rounds in public service announcements: “together apart” – it was a neat way of explaining that we were all in isolation together… not alone in our aloneness… I’m not sure why I made the mental connection,…
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Write a love letter to yourself
The 30th of July is (apparently) International Friendship Day. I’ve already recently written a lot about friends ghosting, coasting and boasting… so instead, today’s post is about making friends with, and celebrating, yourself. Both times I was pregnant, I didn’t find out whether I was having a boy or a…
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Hydration (Part ONE)
“Drink more water” is the catch phrase of well-wishers everywhere. And they’re right. For most of us, we really CAN drink MORE water – and SHOULD. Our bodies are made of it, they need it, and the ‘dryer’ we get, the unhealthier we become. I want to demonstrate what goes…
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Instagram for migraines
Instagram is a completely different world compared to my experience on Twitter-X. I’ve only been there for a few months, mostly posting links to blog-posts, uploading my experiments with AI art and the very occasional image from my life. It is a much more visual place than Twitter-X’s ‘wordy’ format. …
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Progress over perfection
I used to be a bit of a perfectionist. I set high goals for myself. I liked to achieve those goals. Heck, I preferred to overachieve in life wherever possible. “Under promise and over deliver” used to be my humble-brag mantra. Gold stars, pats on the back, A+’s, thumbs up…
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