Alice's blog

Since becoming a life coach and more publicly telling my story about my Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (also known as M.E. or a vast variety of other terms depending on where you live!), I have received several messages from fellow introverts who want to tell me their story of how...

I’ve been struggling for the last few days…

After a few weeks in which I’d been feeling pretty good and had been fairly busy, I suddenly and unexpectedly crashed.  Thankfully, I’m not completely bedbound but I have had to slow down considerably.

As always when this...

It was early in November 2015 when I first realised that this weird collection of symptoms that I had been experiencing was in fact a relapse of M.E.  I was completely exhausted, and yet I had been awake almost all of the night before because my body had been aching so severely that I was...

Ever since I wrote my last blog post 5 reasons why I love that I will always have to worry about M.E, I’ve been thinking about the dark underbelly of that gratitude.

I sat for a long time considering writing a parallel post that I would have called, 5 reasons why my illness is a...

Let me start by saying that M.E./C.F.S. is really shitty.  I mean, REALLY shitty.  There have been many days when I have hated how much it feels like my body has betrayed me.

I’m also lucky to have a relatively mild form of the illness – even on my worst days I...

If there is one thing that is guaranteed to get me annoyed it is the statement ‘People with C.F.S. are just lazy.’  OK, there are several things that get me annoyed – but this one is a biggy and I still hear it far too often.

It’s nonsense of course.  People with...

The picture shows a small section of a crochet blanket that I’ve been working on for quite some time now.  I’ve probably spent hundreds of hours on this blanket but it really hasn’t felt like it.  It started as a way to pass the time while I was really unwell (and also...