Ever smiled through a pounding migraine just to get through the day? You’re not alone. Many migraine sufferers wear a “migraine mask” — hiding our pain to keep working, caring, or just functioning in a world that doesn’t always understand invisible illness.

This episode of The Migraine Heroes Podcast explores the complex reality of masking: when it helps you survive, and when it quietly takes a toll on your body and mind. Hosted by Diane Ducarme, who has guided hundreds of women in rewriting their migraine story, we blend Western neuroscience with Eastern healing wisdom to uncover the unseen cost of pretending to be fine.

You’ll discover:

🎭 Why masking your migraine can increase stress, inflammation, and attack frequency

🎭 The hidden emotional labor of living with invisible pain

🎭 Eastern medicine insights on how holding back disrupts your body’s inner balance

🎭 A compassionate framework for deciding when to mask — and when to let trusted people in

Masking is not a weakness. It’s a survival strategy in a world that rarely pauses to ask what migraine really feels like. But constant masking can leave you depleted, disconnected, and misunderstood. In this episode, you’ll learn how to protect your energy without losing yourself — and why unmasking in safe spaces can be a powerful step toward healing.

🎧 New episodes every Monday and Wednesday

🔗 Migraine Assessment: Discover your unique Migraine Profile and uncover insights about your migraine triggers and solutions. Take a few minutes for yourself and begin now.✨

📲 Want to track your symptoms, understand your unique triggers, and receive personalized support?

Download the Migraine Heroes App today—your healing begins with awareness.

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Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not substitute for providing medical advice. Always consult your healthcare professional before making any health-related decisions.

For women, men, and children who suffer from migraine disease, Migraine Heroes is your go-to resource for understanding, managing, and overcoming migraine attacks.

We cover all types of migraines and related headaches, including primary and secondary migraines, chronic migraines, and cluster migraines. We dive deep into the complexities of migraine with aura and migraine without aura, as well as rarer forms like hemiplegic migraine, retinal migraine, and acephalgic migraine (silent migraine). Our discussions also extend to cervicogenic headaches, ice pick headaches, and pressure headaches, which often mimic migraine or contribute to overall migraine burden.

Ever found yourself inhaling cookies or chips right before a migraine hits—and then feeling ashamed, confused, or totally out of control?

You’re not alone. And you’re not broken.

In fact, that craving might be your brain’s first migraine alert.

In this episode of The Migraine Heroes Podcast, host Diane Ducarme reveals the misunderstood connection between binge eating and migraine prodrome—those hours (or days) before the actual pain begins.

Through science-backed insight and personal stories, you’ll learn:

💡 Why intense cravings before a migraine are neurological, not moral

💡 What the hypothalamus, gut, and vagus nerve have to do with your food urges

💡 Eastern medicine’s view on cravings, and how they reflect imbalance—not weakness

💡 A step-by-step strategy to decode your cravings, regulate your body, and stop the spiral before it starts

You’ll also hear a powerful story of a woman who went from secret gas station binges to full relief—without crash diets or guilt.

Whether your cravings hit before your period, after stress, or for no reason at all—this episode will help you transform shame into insight, and symptoms into signals.

Your body is not betraying you. It’s asking you to listen.

This episode will help you do just that—with clarity, empathy, and practical tools.

🎧 New episodes every Monday and Wednesday

🔗 Migraine Assessment: Discover your unique Migraine Profile and uncover insights about your migraine triggers and solutions. Take a few minutes for yourself and begin now.✨

📲 Want to track your symptoms, understand your unique triggers, and receive personalized support?

Download the Migraine Heroes App today—your healing begins with awareness.

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Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not substitute for providing medical advice. Always consult your healthcare professional before making any health-related decisions.

For women, men, and children who suffer from migraine disease, Migraine Heroes is your go-to resource for understanding, managing, and overcoming migraine attacks.

We cover all types of migraines and related headaches, including primary and secondary migraines, chronic migraines, and cluster migraines. We dive deep into the complexities of migraine with aura and migraine without aura, as well as rarer forms like hemiplegic migraine, retinal migraine, and acephalgic migraine (silent migraine). Our discussions also extend to cervicogenic headaches, ice pick headaches, and pressure headaches, which often mimic migraine or contribute to overall migraine burden.

Ever feel guilty for slowing down—like rest means you’re falling behind? You’re not alone. And if you live with migraine, that belief might be doing more harm than you realize.

In this episode of The Migraine Heroes Podcast, host Diane Ducarme unpacks the hidden cost of pushing through the pain—and why reclaiming rest might be the most powerful move on your healing journey. With a blend of neuroscience and Eastern medicine, we explore how over-productivity impacts your brain, hormones, and nervous system—and how rest, when reframed, becomes medicine.

You’ll discover:

💡 Why your brain associates rest with failure (and how dopamine is involved)

💡 How chronic overwork and productivity guilt increase migraine frequency

💡 The Eastern view of rest as a vital force—not a luxury

💡 Three simple rituals to welcome rest into your life—without shame

This episode is not just about lying down. It’s about unlearning the belief that your worth is tied to your output. Because true resilience isn’t about pretending you're okay. It's about listening to your body when it whispers—and resting before it screams.

Whether you’re in bed with a migraine or trying to prevent the next one, this episode offers validation, practical tools, and a new way of seeing rest: not as giving up, but as returning to yourself.

🎧 New episodes every Monday and Wednesday

🔗 Migraine Assessment: Discover your unique Migraine Profile and uncover insights about your migraine triggers and solutions. Take a few minutes for yourself and begin now.✨

📲 Want to track your symptoms, understand your unique triggers, and receive personalized support?

Download the Migraine Heroes App today—your healing begins with awareness.

🔗 Download the Migraine Heroes App: ⁠⁠⁠

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Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not substitute for providing medical advice. Always consult your healthcare professional before making any health-related decisions.

For women, men, and children who suffer from migraine disease, Migraine Heroes is your go-to resource for understanding, managing, and overcoming migraine attacks.

We cover all types of migraines and related headaches, including primary and secondary migraines, chronic migraines, and cluster migraines. We dive deep into the complexities of migraine with aura and migraine without aura, as well as rarer forms like hemiplegic migraine, retinal migraine, and acephalgic migraine (silent migraine). Our discussions also extend to cervicogenic headaches, ice pick headaches, and pressure headaches, which often mimic migraine or contribute to overall migraine burden.

That yogurt you eat for breakfast… could it be silently setting you up for a migraine later?

In this episode of The Migraine Heroes Podcast, host Diane Ducarme unpacks the confusing role of dairy in migraine health — and reveals how one food group can both soothe and sabotage your nervous system.

We dive into the science and the ancient wisdom behind milk, cheese, yogurt, and more — so you can stop guessing and start listening to your body’s deeper cues.

You’ll discover:

💡 How dairy can hydrate the body and increase inflammation — depending on your unique constitution

💡 The four bioactive compounds in dairy that may be triggering your migraines (casein, lactose, hormones, histamines)

💡 What Traditional Chinese Medicine says about Dampness and how it clouds the brain–gut axis

💡 Practical ways to consume dairy (or avoid it) based on your body’s signals, digestion, and symptoms

We’ll also share:

✨ A powerful story of a woman who thought hydration was helping her — until it quietly made things worse

✨ Why the root of your migraines might not be in your head… but in your gut

This episode blends neuroscience and holistic medicine to help you make smarter choices — not out of fear, but out of deep understanding.

If you’ve ever felt foggy, bloated, or tired after dairy — or confused by conflicting advice — this episode is for you.

🎧 New episodes every Monday and Wednesday

🔗 Migraine Assessment: Discover your unique Migraine Profile and uncover insights about your migraine triggers and solutions. Take a few minutes for yourself and begin now.✨

📲 Want to track your symptoms, understand your unique triggers, and receive personalized support?

Download the Migraine Heroes App today—your healing begins with awareness.

🔗 Download the Migraine Heroes App: ⁠⁠⁠

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Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not substitute for providing medical advice. Always consult your healthcare professional before making any health-related decisions.

For women, men, and children who suffer from migraine disease, Migraine Heroes is your go-to resource for understanding, managing, and overcoming migraine attacks.

We cover all types of migraines and related headaches, including primary and secondary migraines, chronic migraines, and cluster migraines. We dive deep into the complexities of migraine with aura and migraine without aura, as well as rarer forms like hemiplegic migraine, retinal migraine, and acephalgic migraine (silent migraine). Our discussions also extend to cervicogenic headaches, ice pick headaches, and pressure headaches, which often mimic migraine or contribute to overall migraine burden.

Always putting others first… but feeling depleted, in pain, and on edge? That’s not just stress—it may be your body calling for boundaries.

The Migraine Heroes Podcast is your space to heal beyond medications and surface-level advice. Hosted by Diane Ducarme, who’s helped over 500 women decode their migraines using both neuroscience and Traditional Chinese Medicine, this show unpacks the deeper emotional and physiological layers of chronic pain.

In this episode, we explore the quiet—but powerful—link between people-pleasing and migraines.

You’ll:

● Learn how chronic self-silencing drains your nervous system and increases pain sensitivity

● Understand the neuroscience behind fawning and why it’s more than just a personality trait

● Discover Eastern insights on how abandoning yourself creates disharmony—and how to return to your center

● Get practical, body-based tools to protect your energy and start healing gently

This episode is for the kind-hearted souls who always show up for others—but are ready to show up for themselves, too.

🎧 New episodes every Monday and Wednesday

🔗 Migraine Assessment: Discover your unique Migraine Profile and uncover insights about your migraine triggers and solutions. Take a few minutes for yourself and begin now.✨

📲 Want to track your symptoms, understand your unique triggers, and receive personalized support?

Download the Migraine Heroes App today—your healing begins with awareness.

🔗 Download the Migraine Heroes App: ⁠⁠⁠

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Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not substitute for providing medical advice. Always consult your healthcare professional before making any health-related decisions.

For women, men, and children who suffer from migraine disease, Migraine Heroes is your go-to resource for understanding, managing, and overcoming migraine attacks.

We cover all types of migraines and related headaches, including primary and secondary migraines, chronic migraines, and cluster migraines. We dive deep into the complexities of migraine with aura and migraine without aura, as well as rarer forms like hemiplegic migraine, retinal migraine, and acephalgic migraine (silent migraine). Our discussions also extend to cervicogenic headaches, ice pick headaches, and pressure headaches, which often mimic migraine or contribute to overall migraine burden.

Bananas might look harmless, but for migraine-prone brains, they could be a hidden trigger—or a quiet healer.

The Migraine Heroes Podcast is your guide to understanding your brain, your body, and the root causes behind your pain. Hosted by Diane Ducarme, this show brings together real-world data, neuroscience, and Eastern medicine wisdom to help you move beyond short-term fixes.

In this episode, we peel back the truth about bananas—one of the most debated foods in the migraine world.

You’ll discover:

🍌 What Western research reveals about bananas, tyramine, magnesium, and blood sugar

🍌Why bananas can soothe or stir up your symptoms depending on your nervous system, gut health, and digestion

🍌 How Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda explain bananas’ effect on internal balance

🍌 A personalized approach: who should eat bananas—and who may want to skip them (for now)

This is not about labeling bananas as “good” or “bad.”

It’s about listening to your unique body and learning how to make nourishing choices that support real, lasting relief.

Tune in to learn how food either restores your balance—or quietly disrupts it.

🎧 New episodes every Monday and Wednesday

🔗 Migraine Assessment: Discover your unique Migraine Profile and uncover insights about your migraine triggers and solutions. Take a few minutes for yourself and begin now.✨

📲 Want to track your symptoms, understand your unique triggers, and receive personalized support?

Download the Migraine Heroes App today—your healing begins with awareness.

🔗 Download the Migraine Heroes App: ⁠⁠⁠

📌 ⁠App Store⁠

📌 ⁠Google Playstore⁠

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not substitute for providing medical advice. Always consult your healthcare professional before making any health-related decisions.

For women, men, and children who suffer from migraine disease, Migraine Heroes is your go-to resource for understanding, managing, and overcoming migraine attacks.

We cover all types of migraines and related headaches, including primary and secondary migraines, chronic migraines, and cluster migraines. We dive deep into the complexities of migraine with aura and migraine without aura, as well as rarer forms like hemiplegic migraine, retinal migraine, and acephalgic migraine (silent migraine). Our discussions also extend to cervicogenic headaches, ice pick headaches, and pressure headaches, which often mimic migraine or contribute to overall migraine burden.

Ever feel like you have to hold it all together—no matter what? You push through the pain, strive to be the best, and still wonder why your body keeps shutting down.

This episode of The Migraine Heroes Podcast explores the powerful and often overlooked connection between perfectionism and migraine. Hosted by Diane Ducarme, who has helped hundreds of women rewrite their migraine stories, we blend neuroscience with Eastern healing wisdom to uncover the true cost of inner pressure.

You'll discover:

💡 How perfectionism activates your stress response and disrupts your nervous system

💡 The three types of perfectionism—and how to recognize them in your own story

💡 Why chronic tension, guilt, and control can trigger or worsen migraine attacks

💡 Eastern teachings that offer gentle, grounded alternatives to constant striving

Perfectionism isn’t just a personality trait—it’s a physiological pattern. If you’ve ever believed that being perfect is the only way to feel safe, worthy, or accepted, this episode is for you.

You’ll also hear a moving story about a woman whose migraines were rooted not in food or sleep—but in her unrelenting drive to be flawless.

🎧 New episodes every Monday and Wednesday

🔗 Migraine Assessment: Discover your unique Migraine Profile and uncover insights about your migraine triggers and solutions. Take a few minutes for yourself and begin now.✨

📲 Want to track your symptoms, understand your unique triggers, and receive personalized support?

Download the Migraine Heroes App today—your healing begins with awareness.

🔗 Download the Migraine Heroes App: ⁠⁠⁠

📌 ⁠App Store⁠

📌 ⁠Google Playstore⁠

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not substitute for providing medical advice. Always consult your healthcare professional before making any health-related decisions.

For women, men, and children who suffer from migraine disease, Migraine Heroes is your go-to resource for understanding, managing, and overcoming migraine attacks.

We cover all types of migraines and related headaches, including primary and secondary migraines, chronic migraines, and cluster migraines. We dive deep into the complexities of migraine with aura and migraine without aura, as well as rarer forms like hemiplegic migraine, retinal migraine, and acephalgic migraine (silent migraine). Our discussions also extend to cervicogenic headaches, ice pick headaches, and pressure headaches, which often mimic migraine or contribute to overall migraine burden.

That creamy avocado on your toast might not be as harmless as it looks — especially if you’re migraine-prone.

In this episode of the Migraine Heroes Podcast, we dig into a surprising question: Could avocado be making your migraines worse? Diane Ducarme takes you through the journey from traditional Eastern medicine to cutting-edge Western research, revealing how one popular "health food" might be quietly stirring up inflammation and neurological chaos.

You’ll learn:

🥑 Why avocados are considered yin-nourishing in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) — and when that’s a problem

🥑 How avocado acts as a histamine liberator and what that means for your brain and immune system

🥑 The connection between tyramine, digestion, and migraine susceptibility

🥑 Who should avoid avocados — and who might actually benefit from them

Avocados aren’t inherently bad — but if you struggle with a foggy brain, long migraine hangovers, loose stools, or allergies, they may be tipping your system out of balance.

This episode blends real clinical data with 700+ case studies from the Migraine Heroes method. Because no two migraine stories are the same — and healing starts with knowing yours.

🎧 New episodes every Monday and Wednesday

🔗 Migraine Assessment: Discover your unique Migraine Profile and uncover insights about your migraine triggers and solutions. Take a few minutes for yourself and begin now.✨

📲 Want to track your symptoms, understand your unique triggers, and receive personalized support?

Download the Migraine Heroes App today—your healing begins with awareness.

🔗 Download the Migraine Heroes App: ⁠⁠⁠

📌 ⁠App Store⁠

📌 ⁠Google Playstore⁠

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not substitute for providing medical advice. Always consult your healthcare professional before making any health-related decisions.

For women, men, and children who suffer from migraine disease, Migraine Heroes is your go-to resource for understanding, managing, and overcoming migraine attacks.

We cover all types of migraines and related headaches, including primary and secondary migraines, chronic migraines, and cluster migraines. We dive deep into the complexities of migraine with aura and migraine without aura, as well as rarer forms like hemiplegic migraine, retinal migraine, and acephalgic migraine (silent migraine). Our discussions also extend to cervicogenic headaches, ice pick headaches, and pressure headaches, which often mimic migraine or contribute to overall migraine burden.

Woke up with a migraine out of nowhere — and now it won’t stop?

You’re not alone. In this episode of the Migraine Heroes Podcast, we explore the confusing, frightening experience of getting your first-ever migraine, especially in adulthood. Whether it started last month or you’ve recently felt like something in your body has changed for good — this conversation is for you.

Hosted by Diane Ducarme, who has helped hundreds of women break free from chronic migraine patterns, this episode unpacks the medical mystery of “why now?” with clarity and compassion.

You’ll learn:

🔹 Why first migraines can show up later in life, even if you’ve never had one before

🔹 What shifts in your nervous system, hormones, and lifestyle may be triggering this change

🔹 How trying to "fix it" fast with meds can backfire — and create chronic migraine cycles

🔹 The most overlooked root cause behind many first-time attacks

If you're overwhelmed, anxious, and afraid this might be your “new normal,” take a breath. There’s another path — and you don’t have to walk it alone.

🎧 New episodes every Monday and Wednesday

🔗 Migraine Assessment: Discover your unique Migraine Profile and uncover insights about your migraine triggers and solutions. Take a few minutes for yourself and begin now.✨

📲 Want to track your symptoms, understand your unique triggers, and receive personalized support?

Download the Migraine Heroes App today—your healing begins with awareness.

🔗 Download the Migraine Heroes App: ⁠⁠⁠

📌 ⁠App Store⁠

📌 ⁠Google Playstore⁠

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not substitute for providing medical advice. Always consult your healthcare professional before making any health-related decisions.

For women, men, and children who suffer from migraine disease, Migraine Heroes is your go-to resource for understanding, managing, and overcoming migraine attacks.

We cover all types of migraines and related headaches, including primary and secondary migraines, chronic migraines, and cluster migraines. We dive deep into the complexities of migraine with aura and migraine without aura, as well as rarer forms like hemiplegic migraine, retinal migraine, and acephalgic migraine (silent migraine). Our discussions also extend to cervicogenic headaches, ice pick headaches, and pressure headaches, which often mimic migraine or contribute to overall migraine burden.

Does chocolate actually cause your migraine—or is your craving just the first warning sign of an attack? 🍫

In this episode of the Migraine Heroes Podcast, we untangle the bittersweet mystery of chocolate and migraines. Hosted by Diane Ducarme, this episode dives deep into the Western science and Eastern wisdom around one of the most debated foods in the migraine world.

You’ll learn:

• Why chocolate shows up on so many migraine trigger lists—and what studies really say about its effects
• How to tell whether chocolate is a true trigger or simply part of your prodrome (the early warning phase of a migraine)
• What Traditional Chinese Medicine says about cacao’s energetic properties—and how dark chocolate might actually support your nervous system
• Specific guidelines on who might benefit from small doses of cacao, and who should steer clear

We also explore how cravings are more than just desires—they may be your body’s cry for balance, grounding, and comfort. And not all chocolate is created equal: we’ll break down the difference between milk chocolate, 70% dark, and ceremonial-grade cacao—and how each interacts with your migraine terrain.

🌿 Whether you're trying to decode your chocolate cravings or wondering if it’s safe to indulge, this episode is packed with both clarity and compassion. Because your brain deserves the full picture—not just a food fear list.

🎧 New episodes every Monday and Wednesday

🔗 Migraine Assessment: Discover your unique Migraine Profile and uncover insights about your migraine triggers and solutions. Take a few minutes for yourself and begin now.✨

📲 Want to track your symptoms, understand your unique triggers, and receive personalized support?

Download the Migraine Heroes App today—your healing begins with awareness.

🔗 Download the Migraine Heroes App: ⁠⁠⁠

📌 ⁠App Store⁠

📌 ⁠Google Playstore⁠

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not substitute for providing medical advice. Always consult your healthcare professional before making any health-related decisions.

For women, men, and children who suffer from migraine disease, Migraine Heroes is your go-to resource for understanding, managing, and overcoming migraine attacks.

We cover all types of migraines and related headaches, including primary and secondary migraines, chronic migraines, and cluster migraines. We dive deep into the complexities of migraine with aura and migraine without aura, as well as rarer forms like hemiplegic migraine, retinal migraine, and acephalgic migraine (silent migraine). Our discussions also extend to cervicogenic headaches, ice pick headaches, and pressure headaches, which often mimic migraine or contribute to overall migraine burden.