Today you name recurring features of your hemiplegic migraine experience and capture them as the first seeds of your Pattern Map.
This part captures what repeats in your body and what repeats in how the system responds. These become the raw material for your Pattern Map, the first artifact of your Navigator Framework. Move at a pace that fits your capacity. Partial recognition is sufficient for this step.
Over six months, you will build a Navigator Framework. This is a set of linked artifacts that hold what you learn. They stay usable under pressure.
Each month adds one artifact. They build into a working system you carry across care settings.
Month 1 builds the Pattern Map, starting with today's work. It holds what tends to repeat. You do not have to reconstruct it during every episode or encounter.
Before this part, episodes and encounters feel like isolated events. Each one requires a fresh explanation.
What your body does and how the system responds blur together.
After this part, you will have named what repeats in both areas. You capture those names in your Pattern Map, saved locally in your browser. Recognition replaces reconstruction.
Before you can map patterns, you need raw material. Some comes from your body. Some comes from the system.
Both shape what happens next.
The first interactive captures the language that shows up during episodes — these are your seeds. The second turns what repeats into anchors for your Pattern Map.
The words you reach for during an episode can be more specific than clinical shorthand. The words the system uses can carry different consequences. Capture both here. These entries will be used later to build your Pattern Map.
Now that you have captured the language that appears, the next step is to identify what reliably repeats.
Identify repeatable features you can reuse across episodes, appointments, and documentation. These are stable elements that tend to recur. Short entries are enough.
Turn repeated moments into a quick recognition map you can reuse later. This tool helps you capture how your experience is understood, minimized, or redirected before you try to explain or fix anything. This tool is optional for completing Part 1. You can open it after the seed captures above, or return to it later. Your Pattern Map is stored in your Navigator Framework dashboard.
If this material activates fear, urgency, or self-doubt, pause. Recognition work is allowed to be partial. The goal is to notice what repeats, at a pace that fits your current capacity.
Minimum viable action: Name one repeating feature in either interactive. That is enough to move forward.
You have captured at least one entry in Interactive 1 of 2 (episode language) and at least one entry in Interactive 2 of 2 (pattern anchors). Partial entries count. You can return and add more at any time.
Part 2 shows how different care settings see the same episode. You learn to separate what the system does from what your body does. It also captures the responsibility boundary that keeps system behavior from becoming your burden.