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Alex Wijsmuller - The Well-being Warrior

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Alex Wijsmuller - The Well-being Warrior

Sharing my journey with CF/ Long Covid to raise awareness & help others 🥰

06/10/2023

I’ve tried to write something for the past few days. I have so much to share but I find it difficult to put sentences together because of my brain fog. Its like the words are there but you can’t quite reach them & then you become overwhelmed and give up. I try to come back to it but each time I drain my energy & leave myself feeling more confused than when I started. I really want to be able to help others who are going through similar situations but unfortunately having low energy that makes it difficult, so instead I am posting this because it’s still valuable. It gives insight to my friends, family & all those that cross my page into what it’s like to live with Chronic Fatigue/ Long Covid & maybe act as a form of journaling for myself. I really do hope to be able to post more but I need to be careful where I pore my energy & if writing an instagram post takes away from being able to do other more necessary daily tasks then for now I may have to pull back & post when feels right, rather than forcing it.

So here’s a picture of where I am sat right now. It was draining my energy of thinking what picture to put ( I can’t imagine how time consuming & draining it is for the people who make there life off this platform) & so I hope you enjoy seeing Anubis standing proud, looking out at the Volcanos of Lake Atilan. Have a blessed day xx

04/10/2023

Here are a list of tools that I have been using to get better. I have found that these don’t require much energy to do & can leave you feeling more energised from them 👌

*Meditation: Gratitude, Self love, Energy cleansing.
I also do Inner child work but that can be draining as well - (will discuss in another post)

*Breathwork: Kapalbhati, Nadi Shodhana, Wim Hof

* Cold showers
* Cacao instead of coffee
* Gentle stretching
* Using Copal & Palo Santo
* Reading
* Colouring
* Being in nature
* Music

Obviously all these tools will be different for everyone depending on where you are in your recovery stage. For instance, I couldn’t listen to music for a while because it overwhelmed me or I couldn’t read because I couldn’t remember what the line above had just said.

Take your time & choose things that make you feel good 💕

*This is a picture of me after a Temezcal in Mexico. It’s a traditional type of sauna which uses hot coals & herbs to cleanse the body & calm the mind. You sit in the dark so it can be challenging but it’s worth it for the cold bath at the end! This is a tool I had to work up too as I often felt too dizzy to sit in extreme heat or even be able to walk to get there ( that’s why i have not mentioned it in the tools list) but on the days I could manage it, it left me feeling revitalised! 🙏

28/09/2023

My Story…..

At the end of last year I lost my job & sponsorship in Australia. With no where to call home I had no idea where to go. What I needed was to be looked after so I could focus on getting better. Sadly I did not have that option.

So I flew to Bali. It was the closest country I could manage & having been there before,I thought it would take some of the stress away of being in a new place & so it’s there I rested. After a while I got a strong calling to fly to Mexico & with the western doctors telling me there was no cure & with a strong determination to not live a life of sickness, I embarked on a 40 hour journey to Mexico in search of new ways to heal. Surprisingly I was well enough to travel but soon after landing I was in bed for weeks exhausted. Crying everyday & having to ask travellers to get me food, I felt lost & scared. I had no idea where I was meant to be or how I was ever going to get better.

I knew I needed somewhere quiet as sounds were too overwhelming. I needed nature & shops close enough so that even on a bad day, I could make sure I eat. But each place I went something wasn’t right. The shop was too far. The hostel was too intense. I was too far from nature & was confined to being indoors because I didn’t have the psychical or mental energy to get on a bus & taxis were too expensive.

It took me 3 & a half months of moving between places in search of a place I didn’t even know exhausted until I found Rancho Viejo. A beautiful hostel tucked up in the mountains of Oaxaca & immediately I knew this was where I was meant to be. Although I wasn’t ready to work, I knew I I needed to be there & with constant $ worries I went straight to the front desk & asked if they needed volunteers. It turns out the volunteer who was there for a month, had left the day before for an emergency..It was meant to be! The staff were so kind & when I told them of my situation they cried, group hugged me & were accomodating to my health. I finally had found a home!
That was the beginning of my healing journey & my first lesson learnt….Trust in divine timing! 🙏✨

19/06/2023

Last week I did squats for the first time in a year! 🙌 3 sets of 8 baby which is huuuggge progress as it’s taken me a WHOLE year to gather the energy, to not only just be able to do them but get to a place where they wouldn’t leave me in bed for days, as a result!

Having been a PT for 7 years and lived and breathed fitness, not being able to do what I know & love over this past year has forced me to question who I am without it, so being able to complete these, I feel I’ve hit a milestone & soooo excited to see what I’ll be able to do in another year! 🤞🙌

P.s. I didn’t have a picture of me squatting so used a photo of me doing just one of the many forms of training I used to love doing! 🥊 ❤️

26/01/2022

Got out of Coogee for the day ☀️

18/01/2022

I’m not going to lie, I queued up with a bunch of 5yr olds to hold this little guy & I have absolutely no regrets!

Remaining Street Cred: Absolute 0
Inner Child’s Happiness: 10/10 🤣

15/06/2021

F45 Girl Squad -
Aka the best team a girl could ask for! 💕

06/06/2021

After a week in bed with the flu, I am feeling so motivated to get back at it this week!

Even though I spent most of it in my pyjamas, I had the most productive weekend setting goals, cleansing crystals, food prepping and making a vision board for the next 6 months which has honestly woke the monster in me ... don’t worry a good one! 🤣

I feel driven, I feel focused and feel excited to start taking positive action towards achieving my goals & it all starts today. So Monday morning let’s be having ya! 💪

24/03/2021

Feeling pretty chuffed with myself right now after someone at the pool stopped me to tell me I swim really well and I’m like a mermaid in the water.... and who doesn’t want to be a mermaid! 🤷‍♀️🤣

Then when I went to find a picture to post with this I found this one from a few weeks ago and realised I’m basically Ariel! 🧜‍♀️ 🙈🤣🤣

Swipe right to see the resemblance of us on a rock 🤣🤣

22/03/2021

Monday morning - Let’s go!

Sadly today doesn’t look like this. I think it’s actually been raining now for 5 days but either way a Monday is a Monday and it’s a chance to let go of whatever happened last week & get after your goals this week! 👊

We have all been guilty of dreading a Monday morning or just wishing we could have an extra hour in bed but getting up and seizing the day, I reckon is one of the best ways to start your week.

If you hit that snooze button you have already lost. You have given up control of your day.

I know getting up for your alarm might seem small but it’s definitely significant as overcoming something you don’t want to do does something to your mentality. It gives you a sense of accomplishment & confidence as you have taken control, which then feeds into everything you do from then on.

It’s all about changing your perspective & although we can’t control everything, we can control how we start our day. So when that Monday morning alarm goes, welcome it, give thanks for a new day and then go smash it!
Make Monday your new best friend!👊😘

19/03/2021

The weather has turned now in Sydney & Ive found it really hard to swim in the sea because the waves are so big, there has been loads of blue bottles & quite honestly it looks really dark & scary out there!🙈

So today I purchased a 10 pack at the nearest swimming pool because my first ocean swim is just 3 weeks away now & I can’t afford to be missing out on sessions.

Although I realise swimming in a pool isn’t the same as open water, I feel good about the decision to buy a pass pack as I’m taking control & not allowing the weather to determine whether I swim or not. No excuses right! + I get the added bonus of a steam & sauna after...it could be worse! 😜🤣

One thing that was really nice today when I got in the water is that I realised I had missed swimming & that it’s almost become a type of moving meditation for me as I focus on each stroke & how I feel in the water. I’m still way off swimming long distance with ease but what’s nice is that something I dreaded a few weeks ago, has turned into something I now miss if I don’t do! ☺️

16/03/2021

Forget what you did yesterday & focus on what you can do today 👊

Sometimes we get so caught up in what we ‘could’ have or ‘should’ have done but it’s such a waste of energy. You can’t change the past but what you can do is learn from it and use that information to make better decisions today, which will inevitably lead to a more positive tomorrow.
I’m finally learning that directing my attention and focus on positive things even if they are as of a result of a negative outcome is far more beneficial than beating myself up! ☺️

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