by Alice Bulmer | Apr 25, 2017 | Books, Life coaching, Metaskills, Tools of resilience
This is a post about three books that have changed my thinking. They’re somewhat outside my usual bedside reading material. None of the three includes any recipes or organic gardening tips. None mentions Albus Dumbledore or the Beatles. But they’ve all had a profound...
by Alice Bulmer | Mar 24, 2017 | Becoming Alice, Metaskills, Tools of resilience
Last year my life was transformed by a bullet journal. My friend Meliors Simms is usually far more up with what’s current than I am. About this time last year she emailed me and said, “I think you should know about this. Come over and I’ll show you.” And I entered the...
by Alice Bulmer | Dec 24, 2016 | Life coaching, Metaskills, Tools of resilience
This is an article about four slightly weird practices that could make a big difference to your wellbeing. One involves holding your index finger on a small machine that occasionally emits gentle beeps. In another, you move your eyes from side to side while talking....
by Alice Bulmer | Jul 13, 2016 | Books, Ecology, Music, Tools of resilience
Niki Harre’s book Psychology for a Better World is about how to make sustainability sustainable. “The bottom line is that as change agents, if we don’t offer people happiness, they won’t be attracted to what we do, and they won’t stick with the activity we’re...
by Alice Bulmer | Feb 19, 2016 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Life and death, Tools of resilience
This is a post about Linny the cat, Atul Gawande, and David Bowie. “Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth.” – Eckhart Tolle. “To the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure.”...
by Alice Bulmer | Feb 5, 2016 | Becoming Alice, New Zealand culture, Tools of resilience
Today is my 55th birthday. It’s also Waitangi Day, the New Zealand holiday that commemorates the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. Waitangi Day is the closest thing we have to a national holiday. But for a whole bunch of reasons, it’s a day when many New...
