Sick of my misery not too awfully long ago, I got a family doctor THAT I LIKED, a therapist and a life coach within a 24-hour period. I shared my five-year history of migraines with all. The doctor deferred to my neurologist’s expertise. The therapist stressed the importance of good self-care in managing them. The [...]

The Short…Meditation, for me, has shortened my frettin’. Aah! Furloughs announced at work! I should have been saving! This is the first of more robbed paychecks! Then layoffs and homelessness and using my bony finger to scrape cat food from rusty tins! The loop plays less frequently before I calm down, take my lump and realize [...]

My biggest migraine keep-away is meditation.  I can hear the groans now. Oh, no. Not me. I’ve tried it. Can’t. Do it.OK. Now may not be the time to ask that perhaps if you suffer from chronic pain you give meditation one more try. But I get why you would have given up.  I tried for more than 20 years to [...]

 I feel the makings of a migraine. Right now. As I type this. What?! What about all this I-hold-the-secret-to-no-more-migraine stuff you wrote about in your first blog?Well, I didn’t say that. I just said that I discovered a few tricks that helped me reduce them from almost every day to a couple a month. Or [...]

Maybe you’ve been there. When you share a bit of your pain and frustration only to have a well-meaning soul offer some cruel comfort?I have suffered from chronic migraines for five years. Sometimes up to 25 a month. I have tried to keep my complaining to a minimum because I would always be complaining. But [...]