Posts in Migraines
Barriers break down when we build new bonds

Dear New Parent, How are you? Really? It’s totally ok to say you are not ok. You are in your own uncharted territory. The way you are feeling right now does not begin and end with you. There are other Mum’s and Dad’s that have felt the way you do right now. Parenting is challenging. Challenging is just the beginning. There are many new Mum’s and Dad’s that are going through the same changes, the same difficulties, at the same time as you.

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ADHD A to Z (Part 2)

Neurofeedback

Neurofeedback is a drug-free treatment that uses a sophisticated brain-computer interface to ‘strengthen’ or ‘re-train’ the brain and has been the focus of considerable research for over 60 years. Neurofeedback training is a proven and effective treatment for ADHD that provides long-lasting results, and can help whether someone is taking medication or not.

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ADHD A to Z

A is for Assess

Assessment can be a fascinating journey of discovery. When we uncover the details of what is contributing to the symptoms of ADHD, we can take the informed steps we need to improve. Assessments may include those with a GP, Psychiatrist, Paediatrician, Psychologist and Allied Health Professionals.

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It’s time to tell someone I’m not OK - September 2021

The way NOT OK shows itself is rarely obvious. When asked ‘how are you?’ most people, that are NOT OK, are still going to say they are ‘fine’, ‘good thanks, and you?’, they may even overcompensate with a ‘living the dream’. We might do this, partly, because we are on autopilot when responding, maybe we’re kind of conditioned to respond that way, and because it feels like it’s way too much to open up and say (to a somewhat trivial greeting) things that are sensitive, complex and intensely personal.

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You and That Thing!? - June 2021

Just how much time we are spending on, and indirectly surrounded by, screens is scary. They are everywhere. The Royal Children’s Hospitals Health poll reveals excessive screen time is the #1 health concern for parents in 2021. So, if the problem is right up there at the top, surely we’ve got to get to the bottom of it, and do something about it!

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What Happened and What's Happening? - June 2021

Because, at the soul of it, perhaps we don’t want to know it. It can feel horrible and impossible to talk about devastating things that have happened to people, it is overwhelmingly hard to trust enough to ‘find the words’. There is an unquantifiable range in the trauma experience. The immenseness of trauma may immediately feel as though it is already ‘too much’. And it is exactly this potentiality that is key.

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Your Migraine, Your Way, Your Possibilities - June 2021

Migraines are intensely personal. From chatting with many individuals who experience all kinds of different migraines, a common thread is often the only way to get through them is on your own. The presence of others and their sounds, smells, their touching, their ideas, even their well-meaning attempts to soothe you can often make the migraine worse.

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The Neuroscience of Restriction - February 2021

First, we are alarmed, we are told there is something serious to worry about, we enter the intense stress state of ‘fight, flight, freeze’, then the action we are told to do is freeze – that’s your only option, and that doesn’t work well for most of us. It’s been going on for so long, and in some parts of the world so severe, that there would be identifiable changes in brain structure and function as a result.

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