Alice's blog

Exploring all aspects of creating a life you love as a sensitive introvert.  Everything from how to decide what you want to do with your life to how to manage your emotions and mindset on the journey.

The Ultimate Guide to Happiness Feb 16, 2018

About a month ago, I wrote a blog post on how to set goals in an effective and healthy way.  One of the things that I said in that post was that part of what I think we get so wrong when it comes to setting goals is that we expect that achieving the goal will make us happy.

Honestly, I...

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Self-acceptance – easier said than done? Jan 28, 2018

In my last blog post I spoke about the importance of setting goals from a place of knowing that you are worthy of love and belonging.  Rather than striving for achievements in order to prove our worthiness to ourselves or others, we aim instead to try new things simply for the...

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3 tips for when life gets in the way of your big dreams Jul 10, 2017

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...

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5 reasons why I love that I will always have to worry about C.F.S. Apr 17, 2017

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...

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