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Migraine Isn't Random. It's a Threshold Problem, And You Can Raise It.

If you have been tracking triggers, doing all the "right" things and still getting migraine attacks - you are not doing it wrong, it is just that the model you have been given has limitations.

Stop chasing triggers you can't control. Start regulating the nervous system that decides when migraine fires. Get started with the FREE 5 day migraine reset - learn gentle daily steps to help calm your nervous system and build your confidence again.

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The Migraine Nervous System Method

Most migraine advice focuses on avoidance: cut this food, avoid this light, dodge this trigger. It's a reasonable starting point, but it has a ceiling: migraine isn't caused by one thing.

It's caused by how close your nervous system sits to its threshold, the tipping point where stress, poor sleep, and sensory load add up until something, almost anything, sets off an attack.

My work is about raising that threshold, building real capacity, not just managing around the edges of a smaller and smaller life.

This is the idea behind everything I teach: migraine recovery isn't about avoiding life. It's about building a nervous system capable of living it.

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A short daily video and one small action, for 5 days. No cost, no pressure, just a real taste of what raising your threshold actually feels like.

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My signature 8-week program, self-paced, evergreen, built to walk you through real, lasting change at your own pace.

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Why This Is Different

Built on the Threshold Model

Not a list of disconnected tips, one clear, coherent framework behind everything: regulation, sensitisation, and load.

Action, Not Just Information

You've probably already done the reading. This is about doing, small, consistent, doable steps.

Built on Real Clinical Experience

30 years working directly with people living with migraine, not theory, but what's actually worked in the clinic.

Melissa Macdonald Migraine and Headache Physiotherapist

 

Hi, I'm Mel

I have lived with migraine since I was 12 years old.

For decades I did what most people do: I saw doctors, I tracked triggers, I took medicine, I tried to manage it as best I could but the advice I kept getting was some version of: you are too stressed, too busy etc -  as if knowing that was somehow supposed to help.

Nobody told me what to do about it. Nobody gave me a framework. Nobody made me feel like I had any real power over what was happening in my own nervous system.

So I started researching it myself. And what I found changed everything, not just for me, but for the patients I was seeing in clinic who were going through exactly the same thing. Diagnosed, medicated, and sent home without any real understanding of their condition or what they could actually do about it.

I started bringing everything I was learning into my clinical work. Not just hands-on physiotherapy — but nervous system regulation, sleep, stress resilience, movement, nutrition. An integrative approach built around one idea: your threshold is not fixed, and you have more power over this than anyone has told you.

It made a real difference. Over and over again.

That is why I built this program. Because I cannot see everyone in person, but I can get this framework to anyone who needs it.

You deserve more than "try to stress less." This is the more.

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My Migraine Coach acknowledges the Ngandowal and Minyungbal speaking peoples of the Bundjalung Nation, including the Goodjinburra, Tul-gi-gin and Moorung-Moobah clans, as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land and waters of the Tweed Shire, where I live and work. I pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and recognise their continuing connection to this Country.