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Is there such a thing as over-nurturing?
As I was watering the parsley pot plant on my kitchen windowsill this morning, I tried to figure out why it looked a bit sadder than normal. I realized that the soil was saturated. Someone else – possibly everyone else – in my family was watering the parsley pot plant.…
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Having a migraine on TV
I want to add to my series of blog posts the occasional post about other people and how migraine effects their lives. The first in this series comes from an event I remember from 13 years ago (I can’t believe it’s been that long!). A reporter named Serene Branson was…
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Personal boundaries for chronic pain
Somewhere, long ago, I remember hearing the notion that ‘personal boundaries are like picket fences.’ The idea was that you can be immersed in a community and set apart. Fences act as a demarcation between a shared space and what is private. They create the reassurance of a line that…
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Humming the pain away
The vagus nerve runs from your brain, behind your ears and down to your stomach. It helps your nervous system move between ‘fight and flight’ mode and ‘rest and digest’. In an attempt to reduce chronic pain, anxiety, or even just give yourself a lift on those days when you’re…
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Power poses for pain
I tend to avoid ‘bang-crash’ movies, but the other night I was feeling good, so I watched the first half of Marvel “Avengers”. Suddenly something occurred to me. Other than the Mark Ruffalo character (who has the potential to turn into the Hulk if he gets aggravated), everyone else in…
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Metabolic migraines
Ugh – I suppose that a blog writer who writes about migraines is going to have to expect to get a migraine from time to time. But I’m back – it’s 2.30pm in Australia and now that I’m up and at it, I thought I’d send you some notes I…
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Skiing lessons for migraineurs
Ok, so now I’ve got your attention, this blog post IS about skiing, but only by way of a memory that serves as a lesson. When I was about ten years old, I was lucky enough to go on a holiday to the snow with my family. My two younger…
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Inchstones and blogrolls
In one of those humbling lessons the universe so often sends me, no sooner had I posted a negative review of the internet, than the internet gifted me with positivity. Moreover, since I only just blogged about ‘inchstones‘ and celebrating all our baby steps, I decided I should share that…
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Twitter-X for chronic pain
I’ve only been on Twitter-X for a few weeks, and it’s been a rollercoaster. On the upside, whilst there’s not a lot of coordinated community activity around #migraines (that I can find), many people have been very generous with their time and answered my questions (about things such as injectable…
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