Migraines Be Gone: 7 Simple Steps to Eliminating Your Migraines Forever

I was fortunate enough to work with Kelsie in addition to using this book. Starting this program was one of the best decisions of my life. Not only did the program decrease the number of migraines I get each month from seven or eight to about one a month, but it opened my eyes to a whole new way of thinking about them, and preventing them. I don't think I truly believed that eight months later, I would be off the Topamax, and down to one migraine "event" or so a month.
Kelsie taught me to listen to what my muscles were saying and to believe I could make a difference in the outcome. I realize how much stress and muscle tension led to my headaches. Most importantly, I now have many techniques to prevent them.
I have given up all soda and artificial sweetener, something that used to seem impossible. I still listen to the relaxation cds and do the exercises almost every day. Over time, temperature training has become almost second nature. I just rewrote the affirmations that are pertinent to the stage I am in now, and that felt very empowering.
I think the most important thing is that when I completed the book and finished my last session with Kelsie, I had a new attitude and interest in dealing with migraines, stress, and anxiety naturally and without drugs to the extent possible. The now infrequent times that I do get a migraine, I still have to use the triptans, but prevention is the goal. It has truly been life changing.

I am very grateful for this book. The shoulder, neck and jaw stretches helped me address the tension I hold that has been causing my headaches for years. The directions are clear and photos make it very easy to practice. I haven't gotten to the biofeedback part yet but I have already experienced so much relief just from doing the stretches and relaxation
exercises.

I think this book is very practical and empowering and highly recommend it
to anyone who is interested in working from the inside out to heal their
headaches.

Thank you Kelsie for putting this all together!

Not only was this program wonderful for migraine relief but also for other stress related symptoms: insomnia, irritable bowel syndrome, panic, anxiety and headaches! Learning about breathe, muscle tension and release, temperature training, and deep relaxation has put me on the path to being migraine free and a much calmer person. Biofeedback really helps to get in touch with the body and nervous system by giving immediate feedback and information. I have developed natural, everyday tools to help erradicate headaches from my life. What a blessing!

After reading this book, I went from headaches/migraines (the gut-wrenching, light-noise-smell-phobic, 'Please let me die to put an end to this misery' kind) 5-6 times a week requiring - often strong - medications, to a much less severe version once a week, maybe twice, if I am under a lot of stress and/or if there are profound changes in weather and/or if I get lax or careless in applying at least some of the seven steps - including biofeedback - every day. All this happened gradually within a time-span of 1-3 months.

True, when a migraine is rearing its ugly head, it is still necessary to reach for medication(s). But this book gives headache sufferers the tools to play an active part in working on preventing headaches from occuring. It puts the reader in charge of choosing to deal actively with this dreadful illness, to be proactive rather than reactive.

There are still times, especially when I have been painfree for several days in a row, that my new-found self-discipline and commitment go out the window and I forget to stretch, to do the deep-breathing and deep-relaxation and biofeedback exercises, etc., and I just go back to life as it was before I read the book, and more often than not, I suffer the consequences. There really is a marked difference!

This book is not a quick fix but a guideline for helping you to help yourself until at least some of the seven steps become a part of your life. Five months into the journey I am just at the beginning, but in this relatively short period of time (compared to three decades of misery), I have experienced enough positive changes to keep me going. I am learning to effectively deal with headaches in particular as well as - bonus! - life's adversities in general.

Thank you, Kelsie Kenefick, for taking the time to write a book full of immensely useful information!

The National Headache Foundation says, "Behavioral techniques like these are used in headache centers around the world and can work wonders in reducing migraines. The steps in Migraines Be Gone are broken down into a dozen simple and well-described lessons. Kelsie makes the exercises easy to integrate into one's daily life..." Indeed, I believe that Kelsie's program is a gift to migraine sufferers around the world. She has created the only comprehensive biofeedback-based program that I have seen and has set up the program so that anyone can do it on their own. Her relaxation CDs are the best I have heard and her voice is the most soothing and relaxing voice imaginable! I go to sleep every night listening to her CDs... and I sleep like an angel!

Kenefick is a biofeedback therapist who draws on thirty of years of study in mind-body medicine, yoga and psychology, and fourteen years specializing in the treatment of migraine, to create the seven-step program outlined in the book.
The National Headache Foundation goes on to say, "The seven steps include: making a commitment to create new habits through the program; understanding the role of the autonomic nervous system in regards to migraine; calming the body and mind through breathing, relaxation and imagery exercises; learning to relax the shoulder, neck, eye and jaw muscles; using thoughts to heal through affirmations; and increasing your circulation through temperature training (biofeedback)." I have personally experienced Kelsie's work and her program is nothing short of brilliant. She has put it together in a way that anyone who is motivated can follow her program and master the skills she teaches.

The National Headache Foundation says, " 'This book is essentially about creating new habits,' Kenefick writes. She's not referring to eating or smoking, but to habits that most of us think we have no control over--our autonomic nervous system. This is the "automatic" part of our nervous system that controls such bodily functions as blood flow and heart rate. The autonomic nervous system is also responsible for the "fight or flight" state that so many of us experience as a result of daily stresses. Too much time in this state can push the already sensitive migraine brain into migraine attacks."
As an M.D., I have treated hundreds of migraine patients over the years and am witness to the struggles migraineurs encounter when they rely on pharmaceuticals alone. The Migraines Be Gone Program is the perfect compliment. This is a book about empowerment for individuals who are ready to take responsibility for their health and well-being. A true gift to migraine sufferers everywhere... bravo to Kelsie Kenefick!