Helping You Sparkle™ – Mental Health and Well-Being with Delphi Ellis
Mental Health Recovery and Maintenance through Compassionate Education in Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes
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How do you know when you’re reaching your tipping point? Pretty much everybody has one. Unless you have the composure of someone like Pema Chödrön, chances are there will be times when it feels like situations are getting on top of you. For some people, stress is caused by too much pressure:• Workload• Demands on …
This article was written before the coronavirus outbreak. An article specific to COVID and anxiety is here. A certain amount of anxiety is normal. When you’re preparing for a presentation at work, or need to have a difficult conversation, it’s normal to have a healthy anticipation which allows you to plan what you’ll say, and …
How do you know when you’ve had enough? Some people have some early warning signs. They might: • feel grumpier than usual • feel like hiding • sigh. A lot. In the Shambhala teachings, this is sometimes referred to as “meeting your edge”. It’s that moment when you realise you’re reaching your limit, and that what …
How’s your intuition these days? Your spidey-sense. Your inner wisdom. Your gut.. ..and what’s it telling you? We are built to be “in tune” with our environment. Our body was designed to know when it’s time to go to sleep (before technology did its best to put a stop to that). It’s how we can …
In my workshops I talk about happiness, that being the real meaning of it. I talk about how shops and online retailers will have us believe that in order to be happy, you need what they have. This image arrived in my inbox today, and is a perfect example of this. The only problem is, …
We have thousands of thoughts a day. It’s been suggested we have between 12,000 to 80,000 thoughts, which could be as many as 2,500 an hour. According to some articles up to 85% of the thoughts we have are negative, and 90% are repetitive. What you thought about yesterday, you’ll probably think about today and …
Welcome to my website, thank you for stopping by. These pages tell you how to access services which have been carefully designed to help you find your mojo and get your sparkle back. Mental health is as important as physical health, and we now know that one can have an impact on the other. But …
Counselling, also known as talking therapy, can be helpful for people who want to find their mojo or get their sparkle back, perhaps after a difficult period in their lives. Counselling takes place in a safe and professional environment, and is usually in the format of a 1-1 session, either face to face or over …
How do you feel about 2019? It’s about now the pressure really starts to mount to make new year’s resolutions, and set goals with good intentions. To try that new diet. To get more exercise. To better yourself in one way or another. The ‘New Year, New You’ crowd gets louder, and genuinely it can be exhausting. …
What’s your relationship like with your mirror? I ask, because a lot of people don’t have a good relationship with theirs. You might spend as little time as possible in front of it, because to look in the mirror can feel like vanity. But it also might be because we don’t like the voice inside it; the one that …