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Modern Migraine Mama

Creating Community Through My Migraine Journey

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Hello my sweet friends. It has been a little while since I posted as I am in the midst of a nasty flare. But, I felt compelled to share some level of encouragement with a community that has given me so much over the past 4 years.

Living with a chronic illness means you never can let your guard down. Over the past year I have slowly tried to regain some semblance of a “normal life” —I started working again, I begin to spend more time outside with my husband and son, even finding myself not wanting to lay in a dark room all day every weekend.

Hi! It’s been a little while since I’ve engaged with this lovely community—I have missed you all so much but needed a bit of a social media break. Life was feeling heavy so I chose to take a little step back from advocating.

Being a parent, having a career and managing a chronic illness can be down right overwhelming and depressing.

For the first 20 years of my life, I did the right things, made the

I am a perfectionist. Or actually, I like to say that I am a “recovering” perfectionist. I was 18 years old when I was officially diagnosed with migraine. Back then I strove for perfection in all aspects of my life. And IF my expectations were not met, I would spiral into an attack. Over time, I came to recognize the positive correlation between my attempts of perfection and the onset of an attack. This is not always 100% true, but consistently an attack will arise after an event or situation where I have sought perfection and control.

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