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Generative art in therapy
The idea of a single, continuous self across a life doesn't hold up against the research on major life transitions. On matrescence, identity after leaving violence, art therapy, Internal Family Systems, and what Anselm Kiefer's own process reveals about externalizing an unresolved inner conflict.
Self-evaluation matrix
Are you more of a practical or effusive person? A personal self-evaluation matrix — questions on temperament, emotional intelligence, risk tolerance, decision-making, and self-leadership that helped me understand my own stress factors, fears, and migraine triggers.
Migraine's Hidden Cost: What It Does to Relationships
The largest study of its kind found most people with chronic migraine believe they'd be a better partner without it — and their partners carry a measurable burden of their own.
Why Men Are Underdiagnosed With Migraine
Men with migraine are diagnosed later and less often than women with the same symptoms. The research points to stigma and reporting bias, not a real difference in how many men have it.
Migraine and Long-Term Brain Health: What the Research Does and Doesn't Show
A 2025 meta-analysis of nearly 7 million people found migraine is associated with a higher risk of later dementia — here's what that finding does and doesn't mean for you.
Does Talk Therapy Help Migraine? What the Evidence Actually Shows
Cognitive behavioral therapy has a real, recommended place in migraine care — but the evidence behind it is genuinely more mixed than most headlines suggest, and that's worth knowing plainly.
Sleep and Migraine: The Mechanism Behind the Trigger
Sleep disruption isn't just correlated with migraine — there's a specific, tested mechanism for why losing sleep makes the brain more susceptible to an attack.
Which Exercise Actually Reduces Migraine Frequency? What the Trials Show
Strength training, high-intensity cardio, moderate cardio, and yoga have all been tested against migraine in real trials — and they don't perform equally.
Silent Migraine: When Aura Comes Without the Headache
Around 4% of people with migraine get the visual disturbance, the dizziness, the nausea — and no headache at all. It's a real, distinct pattern, not a milder version of a "normal" attack.
Migraine: Symptoms and Forms
What defines a migraine attack, what an aura is, and the less common forms of the disease.
Migraine in Your 40s and the Road to Menopause
Perimenopause can start years before your period actually stops — and the hormonal instability of this transition is a well-known migraine trigger.
Migraine in Your 30s: What Changes
Pregnancy, postpartum, and a career and family load that makes stress and sleep harder to control — the 30s change the trigger landscape.
Migraine in Your 20s: What to Know
Your migraines are still finding their pattern — this is the decade to learn your own triggers before life gets more complicated.
Migraine Therapy: The Acute Attack
Why early, high-dose treatment matters, and how classic painkillers compare to triptans.
Perimenopause, Menopause and Migraine
A closer look at why hormone instability — not low estrogen itself — is what drives migraine through this transition, and why it usually gets better afterward.
Causes and Triggers
Why migraine happens, and the trigger factors most commonly reported — including why a headache diary helps.
Research: Exercise Therapy Helps Migraine and Headache
A Kiel University study found jogging and walking both measurably reduced migraine days and headache hours.
Medication Prevention and Advanced Options
When to consider daily prophylactic medication, Botox, and CGRP antibodies.
Is Migraine Genetic? What Family History Tells You
Migraine runs strongly in families — knowing your family's pattern, including menopause age, can help you anticipate your own.
Migraine Therapy: Prevention
Non-drug prevention: routine, relaxation techniques, exercise, and supplements with evidence behind them.
Hydration, Electrolytes, and Magnesium: What Actually Helps
Dehydration is one of the most common, most overlooked migraine triggers — and a few supplements have real evidence behind them as prevention.