The Adherence Principle - Empowering Your Healthy Self

There is a balance between the Healthy and the Unhealthy Selves. This is the disease threshold. Maladaptive coping skills are tip the balance towards becoming overwhelmed by stress, feeling distressed, and developing symptoms that may transform into disease. Identifying self-defeating coping patterns and replacing them with positive behaviours gives our Healthy Self a chance to come to the fore. We are then ready to take on the responsibility of regaining health by working in partnership with a clinician and following a medical management plan.

We have only one body and it deserves respect and care, nurturing and attention. The body is our conduit to life's experiences.

The Healthy Self is a belief, an attitude, a way to perceive the environment . It tells us we occupy an important place.

Chapter 4 - Living with Migraine covers successfully managing migraine something that is complex for both the healthcare professional and for the migraineur, making adherence to a treatment plan essential.