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The 30 day lockdown wellbeing challenge

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I decided to create a 30 day wellbeing challenge to help us all cope with the self-isolation during the current lockdown. There's loads of factors that could be impacting on your wellbeing right now, and doing small, simple things can hopefully make a difference. The suggestions in my 30 day wellbeing challenge can hopefully help … Continue reading The 30 day lockdown wellbeing challenge

Suitable self talk during the lockdown

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We've been in lockdown now for several weeks. If you're struggling with it all, one of the best things you can do is to change your mindset. But how? I hear you asking. By changing the way you view and think about stuff. Let me explain... It's a very uncertain, anxious, and strange time for … Continue reading Suitable self talk during the lockdown

Boost your wellbeing and live a happier life

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Taking better care of your body and mind is a good way to improve the amount of happiness you experience in daily life. No matter how challenging things can get, if you take your wellbeing seriously, you can get through, and in many cases, stop them from becoming much worse. None of us can be … Continue reading Boost your wellbeing and live a happier life

Changes you can make to work toward better health

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Your health is so important these days, and you need to do as much as you can to work toward improving this as much as possible. Think about what it takes to make the most of this, and factor in the ideas that can help you to become healthier in your life. You need to … Continue reading Changes you can make to work toward better health

Walking for chronic pain: hiking with friends

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A few weeks ago I went hiking with friends. I had an amazing day and thought I'd write a quick blog post about it to share why I absolutely loved it and how it helped me. Where did we hike? I met two of my friends who also have chronic pain. We all have different … Continue reading Walking for chronic pain: hiking with friends

Wellbeing Wisdom: Setting some new goals

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I've realised lately that I am a goal-orientated person. I've always had goals, but I've never really thought about how much they motivate me or how driven I am by them. If I really set my mind on something, I can usually find the energy and drive to achieve it. So this has got me … Continue reading Wellbeing Wisdom: Setting some new goals

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Wellbeing wisdom: Eat the rainbow

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I've learned that the best way to look after my chronic pain is to look after me. If I'm healthy, energised, and feeling well in myself, it makes managing my pain so much easier. When I'm unhealthy, lethargic, and feeling unwell, then obviously the opposite happens - managing my pain is so much harder. I'm … Continue reading Wellbeing wisdom: Eat the rainbow

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Wellbeing wisdom: how to make a bad mental health day a bit brighter #review

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In this blog post I share my thoughts on Lauren Ephithite's new booklet how to make a bad mental health day a bit brighter. I've followed Lauren ever since I started blogging. She writes about mental health, wellbeing, and gratitude. I purchased the booklet from Etsy and decided to do a short review on my … Continue reading Wellbeing wisdom: how to make a bad mental health day a bit brighter #review

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Wellbeing wisdom: what is wellbeing?

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In last week's first post of this new seires, I jumped in the deep end and spoke about stepping out of my comfort zone. I wanted to talk about my events of the week to highlight how this can help us and how it makes us feel when we make that leap and try something … Continue reading Wellbeing wisdom: what is wellbeing?

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Your complete guide to pain management for chronic pain

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When you have chronic pain, you know that you will be in it for the long-run, so you need to find ways of managing your pain so that you can continue doing the things you enjoy and living your life. It isn't just the pain itself that you need to consider as part of your … Continue reading Your complete guide to pain management for chronic pain

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I’m Alice, I’m here to help you cope with and understand chronic pain. I share my experiences, tips and advice to help you carry on doing the things you enjoy and teach your friends and family to understand more so they can support you.

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New on the blog... Managing chronic pain is hard. New on the blog... Managing chronic pain is hard. Very often you avoid your pain, but cause other pains, irritations or general discomfort. In this post I have a little rant about the things that I find annoying when trying to cope with and manage my pain. 📒👓 #blog #newblogpost #blogger #blogging #chronicpain #chronicpainblog #notebooks #glasses #wordpress #invisibleillness #chroniclife #notebook #painsupport #chronicpainblogger
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Today’s blog post is all about sleep and chronic Today’s blog post is all about sleep and chronic pain, a guest post by Brandon Ulmer @elevationprocess.inc Their new sleep programe is about educating people on the important steps that they can take, right now, to improve their sleep. “The unfortunate reality of chronic pain is that ANY position that you stay in for too long will increase the experience of pain; yet this is exactly what happens when we finally do fall asleep.” Link in my bio📒👓 #sleep #blog #newblogpost #blogger #blogging #chronicpain #chronicpainblog #notebooks #glasses #wordpress #invisibleillness #chroniclife #notebook #painsupport #chronicpainblogger
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