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Angel Number 5
For those of you who are new to my blog, there’s a little habit that I have gotten into, which is celebrating my ‘inchstones’ (as opposed to ‘milestones’). All those little baby-steps that are helping me heal are recognized, including my monthly anniversaries of blogging (which I started on January…
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Ghosting, coasting, or boasting: chronic-pain-friends (PART 1)
This post started out VERY long in its first draft. Whilst I try to do my best to minimize how much I write in one go, (because I’m trying to save my pain-brain and yours too much effort), the issue of chronic-pain-friends is a subject that really deserves a decent…
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Free mini-makeover for your bedroom
Mindfulness is a skill which involves being non-judgmentally present in your current moment. This might be an odd sidestep to traditional mindfulness matters, but if you regularly do your meditations or Yoga routines in your bedroom, or you spend a lot of time there due to chronic illness, you can…
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Dirty dishwater revelations: what your sink is trying to tell you
OK, so head’s up, this is by far the weirdest post I’ve ever made. After I had done the breakfast dishes and a few random items I’d found floating around downstairs (kids!), I went to let the plug out of the kitchen sink. I wasn’t in a good mood or…
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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs – for healing
In the year 1943, American psychologist Abraham Maslow published a theory about how humans address their needs in the form of hierarchical stages. (Curiously, Maslow himself apparently didn’t come up with the ever-present triangular graphic that we associate with his theory). You’ve probably seen the graphic, but here’s a copy of it…
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Breakfast for Dinner
When I was growing up, our family aimed to have a proper sit-down dinner 6 nights a week. My father would come home, we’d each sit in our regular spots at the dinner table, and as we ate, my sisters and I would recount what we’d done that day, what…
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Meet the Burples
June is Migraine Awareness Month, as I recently mentioned. One of Migraine Australia’s initiatives for this month is the launch of “the Burples” aimed at helping draw attention to migraines in a fun way. There are three Burples on the webpage. As a hemiplegic migraine person, the one that I…
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Pessimism: is it realistic or wrong?
My daughters listen to a musician named Alec Benjamin. He suited my mood last year as he tends to sing angsty woe-is-me songs. This year, however, I’m trying to ‘lean into’ a more sunshine-and-happiness version of myself in order to heal. There is, nonetheless, one song of his that sometimes…
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Chronically Empowered Podcast
This morning, I experienced a full-on jump-scare moment. I opened up LinkedIn while I was having my morning half-cup of coffee, ready to read through what other people had posted last night while I slept, and… OH! There was my chitty-chatty face chitty-chatting away in a video clip! You see,…
The Mindful Migraine 