If you ever lay in a dark room wondering what you did to deserve this — nothing. You did nothing. Let's clear a few things up, because I think a lot of us carry guilt about our migraines that we don't deserve. Quick note: I'm a lifelong migraine sufferer and a mitpachat designer, not a doctor. This is lived experience and general info — for anything medical, please talk to your neurologist. Migraine is neurological. Full stop. Migraine is not “just a bad headache,” and it's n

Some migraine triggers you can see coming a mile away. Naming them is oddly powerful — you can't dodge what you can't see. So let's round up the usual suspects, the ones most of us with migraine disorder learn to recognize first. Quick note: I'm a lifelong migraine sufferer and a mitpachat designer, not a doctor. This is lived experience and general info — for anything medical, please talk to your neurologist. The classic culprits Stress — and, cruelly, the let-down right aft

It's not about being too sensitive, it is about how you experience the world around you. “Sensory-friendly” gets slapped on a lot of things these days, usually right next to “effortless” and “your new go-to.” So let me tell you what it actually means — from the inside, as someone whose senses come standard with the volume knob cranked too high. First: what “sensory” even means here Some of us process the everyday world with different intensity than others. For me it's Chronic

Head covering giving you a headache? Here are the five usual culprits — tension, elastic, weight, texture, heat — and how to fix each, from a migraine-sufferer designer.

I need to file a complaint. About my own product. Bear with me. True story: one morning I walked my six-year-old out to the school bus, waved him off, felt the Be'er Sheva sun on my face, and strolled back inside like a woman who has her life together. It was only later that I realized I had done the entire school run with my head uncovered. Because I was so sure I had my Sprkly on. It was that comfortable. My head genuinely could not tell the difference between “wearing it”

Bonjour. Shalom. Howdy. Let me start with my neurologist. I walked into the office wearing a mitpachat, complaining about chronic migraines during pregnancy. She proceeded with a rant in blended Hebrew, Russian, and English about how terrible Mitpachot are and that I shouldn’t wear them if I have migraines and that there should be some kind of pikuach nefesh around Kisui rosh and religious fanaticism, etc. Also, since I was pregnant, there were almost ZERO options for treatme