by Alice Bulmer | Jul 10, 2024 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Life coaching, Metaskills, Tools of resilience, Wellbeing
Do you really want to do regular spiritual practice, but it’s just not happening? Your good intentions go astray when the course ends. Or after you get home from the meditation retreat. It took me many years to find a regular practice of my own. I’m sharing some...
by Alice Bulmer | Sep 28, 2023 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Favourite, Life and death
There’s a small worm farm tucked away under a tree in my back garden. It’s not a fancy worm bin. Just some stacked plastic boxes with lids and dividers. At any time of the year, it contains thousands of wriggly creatures. Willingly consuming potato peels, apple cores,...
by Alice | Jun 17, 2021 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Family skeletons, Favourite, Metaskills
Deep in the forest, high up in the mountains of New Guinea, a huge bird strides confidently through the undergrowth. Foraging here and there for seeds and fruit and insects, the cassowary is the queen of the forest, the biggest creature in this ecosystem. She doesn’t...
by Alice | Jan 19, 2021 | Ecology, Favourite, Tools of resilience, Wellbeing
I love putting my hands into beautiful, living soil. It’s an amazing, grounding, energetic feeling. I enjoy other aspects of gardening: caring for plants, building compost heaps, harvesting and eating the bounty. But getting my hands in the dirt gives me a feeling of...
by Alice | Apr 12, 2020 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Food
This is the story behind my new book, Meet your greens: Enliven your salads with herbal energetics. It’s about how to make amazing salads, but it’s also about a lot more than that. Meet Your Greens comes out of my lifelong interest in the different flavours of salad...
by Alice | Jan 22, 2020 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Food
The year I was 15, my father, Ralph, gave me for Christmas a small jar containing strange white curds. He said it was a yoghurt bug. But it wasn’t like any yoghurt bug I’d ever seen. It wasn’t the kind of present Dad usually gave me. He was great at choosing gifts for...
