Understanding where I am in my journey and recognizing how hope can be a good thing, but can also be damaging to progress.
Tag: living with migraine
Chapter 3: Finding Life
John Lennon said: Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. Someone should have made a point to say that to me a bit more firmly in high school. I spent so much time working on those plans that at some point I stopped working on the whole life thing.
The Accessibility Thing
Accessibility is something I was actually taught in school - most likely because both fields I chose to study had a tremendous amount of restrictions in place because of accessibility, but nonetheless the topic was never hidden from me.
Yoga For Migraines
What is typically the first thing you hear when you have any sort of health condition? You need to exercise more. What is the hardest thing to hear as a migraine patient? You need to exercise more. The hardest lifestyle change that I've made as my migraines went from bad to worse involved giving up… Continue reading Yoga For Migraines
Removing the Weight from “Burden”
Burden. A heavy word that gets thrown around quite a bit within the mental health, chronically ill, and disabled communities. It's about time we break the stigma surrounding "burden" and start learning to accept it and grow with it. But what is a burden? The dictionary describes it as: a load, particularly a heavy one.… Continue reading Removing the Weight from “Burden”
