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The Narcoleptic’s Best Friend. The Migraineur’s Often Arch Nemeisis.

January 30, 2016

I’m a living, breathing contradiction 👌🏼

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Posted in: chronic daily headaches, fighter, invisible illness, life, migraines, narcolepsy, spoonie, spoonie community, spoonie life, Spoonie strong, spoonies, struggle, this is my journey, Uncategorized, Weekend | Tagged: bed, feeling low, migraines, my journey, my story, narcolepsy, need help, sleep, struggles

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Rather than coming up with big resolutions for the new year (that I usually don’t stick to 🙊), I love setting monthly intentions that hold attainable goals for me to strive for that month. 📅 It’s important to think big picture, but I think it’s more important to prioritize the smaller things that we have to do to create that big picture for ourselves. And these three things are what I have been focusing on the most lately: • Stop overthinking 💭 Quiet my mind in the moment and act how I feel will best serve me right then • Expand my freelance work 📝 I’ve been working on a few different freelance writing projects, but they aren’t in areas I’m passionate about. It helps to make extra 💰 but I want to do it in a way that I enjoy! So I want to broaden the topics I’m writing about & the type of work I spend my time doing • More preparation, less procrastination ⏱ it doesn’t help my anxiety to always be pushing things til the last minute. I need to figure out how to best prepare (no matter what it’s for) so that I can stop overwhelming myself. • • • What are you focused on the most right now? What small steps are you taking to help get you closer to your big picture goal? . . . #january #intentions #newyear

Merry Christmas ❤️🎄I hope you have found peace, love, joy & low pain today wherever you are spending the holidays! 🎅🏼Reminding myself why we celebrate this holiday & am feeling very blessed to have family & friends, near and far, to be thankful for. 👫Sending you all my love & good thoughts today 💕 #merrychristmas

Happy “Christmas Eve” Eve ✨ I haven’t been posting as much as usual, because honestly I had been feeling better than I have in years. I was having days where I went a couple of hours with zero pain. 🙌🏼And understandably so, I got caught up in actually enjoying the low pain days & pain free hours. But then, as my fellow #chronicpainwarriors can relate to, the pain returned with a what felt like a vengeance. 💥It’s been hard to not overthink how or why my pain came back with such force, but I’ve been trying to practice patience and take it one day at a time, just like I always have before 💆🏼‍♀️ . . . #invisibleillness #spoonie #chronicpain

A great reminder that chronic illness is a journey filled with many ups and downs 🎢 If you’re like me and are using several different treatments at one time, your journey becomes a trial and error process of learning which treatment is actually working and how 📊and in that process, your symptoms get worse, get better, or stay the same and it’s usually never predictable. Just keep riding the 🌊 and be kind to yourself along the way 💛 via: @thechrillness #chronicillness #invisibleillness #wednesdaywisdom

Me and my sweet tooth love #nationalcookieday 🍪 Something I’ve noticed over the many years of having migraines, is that my sugar cravings spike right before and right after a migraine attack 📈 how do you deal with these sugar cravings? Have you noticed a linkage between sugar and your migraines/headaches or other conditions? 🍭 📸: @xp3cto . . . #migraine #sugar #invisibleillnessawareness #chronicillness

🎄December Intentions 🎄 Focusing this month on my spiritual mindset and living intentionally day to day. ❄️”Be more present” stop worrying about where I could be or where I will be tomorrow, and start relishing in or accepting whatever moment I’m in right now. 🙇🏼‍♀️ ❄️”Learn something new every day” whether it’s through a podcast, a book, a friend, at work, etc., I want to keep my mind stimulated and pick up new knowledge wherever I can! 📔 ❄️”Ten minutes of meditation or prayer each day” doing so helps me set the tone for the day & helps me get in the right mindset to take on whatever may come at me that day 🙏🏼 ❄️”Foster a giving heart” because this is the season of giving and I want to remember that even when I think I don’t have a lot, there is always someone out there who has less and could use our help. We only get out of this world as much as we give back to it 💛 . . . What are your #intentions for #december?

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