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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,…
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Make peace not war with your chronic pain
Some time ago, I wrote about the neurologist who said you should ‘make friends’ with your migraine. When you’re in the depth of chronic migraine, it is very hard to imagine befriending a foe so painful… but – there is truth in this sentiment. At the very beginning of my…
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‘Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde’ and me…
June is Migraine Awareness Month. It’s rather fitting I feel, given that June is also my birthday-month! Most of June falls into the Zodiac sign of Gemini which uses the symbol of the twins. I don’t know whether it’s a coincidence or not, but the word ‘migraine’ comes from the…
The Mindful Migraine 