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Royalty free images
For today’s post I’m going a bit rogue. This morning, my youngest daughter headed off on a school excursion to the Art Gallery in Sydney, and it reminded me of something I recently read. I know that a lot of my readers are also bloggers, so I wanted to share…
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Migraine Biomarkers
The next instalment from my file notes from the ever-giving 2024 Migraine World Summit is a discussion on whether increased knowledge about biomarkers could improve migraine diagnosis. Dr Patricia Pozo-Rosich, the head of neurology at a Spanish institute was interviewed, and the short answer to the hypothesized question is yes……
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The blog-rolls keep rolling
I said I was going to annoy you all with my mini-achievements, so here I am celebrating another teeny-tiny-yet-epic milestone: 500 LIKES! Because, in case you haven’t noticed, I’m super motivated about collecting likes (not really – but I’m only human, and they make me warm and fuzzy so keep…
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World Health Day
This Sunday, the 7th of April, is World Health Day, and since I tend to be a Monday-to-Friday blogging kinda gal, I thought I’d better mention it today before we head into the weekend. Occupations tend to run in families. On my side of the family-tree there are two architects,…
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Domino thinking and anxiety
After I posted yesterday’s note where my mind was ‘spinning out’, I realized that some of you might think I’m a bit of a looney. That may be true, but I also trained myself to think that way – for better or for worse. When I was at university and…
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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…
The Mindful Migraine 