🎄🎄Community Christmas Trees on Sale🎄🎄@eastlondon_trees . £10 per sale goes to one of our partner charities which you choose at checkout. Make a difference with your festive centrepiece this year 🙌☃️ Including: @tin_in_a_bin @walthamstowtoylibrary @e11kindness @thewansteadcurtain @e11holy @millimetres2mountains @warchilduk Head to eastlondontrees.com 🎄🎄☃️ 📸 @jenny_vaughan_ 💓

Happy Anti-Bullying Week! 🙌💚💥📣 Every year for 6 years anti-bullying week has been one of busiest weeks in my calendar. I have done school assemblies, workshops, visited local community groups, organised fundraisers and delivered speeches, cramming as much in as possible and saying yes to absolutely every engagement requested. This week I chose to do one workshop. My mental health has been rocky recently and I could feel that I was about to jeopardise it even more by bending over backwards to do everything for everyone. My anti-bullying work is where my social action journey began, so it’s of course one of the most important things to me but I’m okay with doing less for one year :). Anyway, the one session I facilitated with a Guides group on Thursday was so gorgeous - we spoke about all the different ways we could practice showing respect to others and ourselves through creative activities - including representing respect through our own ‘Spaghetti & Marshmallow Sculptures’ ✨💓 📸 Elsa & Guides Leaders

hard days don’t last but they do exist, and that’s okay. let yourself feel all the feels ❤️‍🩹

📣Speaking at the UK Youth summit 2024💥 How lucky am I to get to create change with gorgeous humans. Thanks for having us @uk.youth ✨ Speaking alongside @cypmhc @mindcharity @youth_access_ & @deniseyan_ , we highlighted the importance of our #FundTheHubs campaign, which exists to change the way we approach young people’s mental health. Early intervention support, accessible when young people need, not when the system deems them ‘unwell enough’ for help. We shared how the campaign has maintained its success and impact through cross-sector collaboration, and actively called on others in the space to do the same. I spoke about my challenges of accessing mental health services for the past 8 years, and how I was let down by a broken system which made 14-year-old me believe that I didn’t matter. Having a safe space in my community, focused on early intervention, and easily accessible to walk-in, would have made a huge difference to my story, and as so many other young people sadly face the same challenges we need these hubs now more than ever before. Find out more about the campaign via the link in my bio. Special thanks to my cheerleaders today too ✨❤️‍🩹. Support links in bio >> resources.

elsaarnold.com 👀 she’s real 🥹💓 Link in bio to prove it 😝🌈✨ With services including talks & workshops for schools, teacher training days, panel discussions and more. Plus free resources I’ve either created myself or been a part of putting together, with lots to come. Please reach out if you need support 💚. Get in touch to discuss services further. YAY ✨✨✨✨ #elsaarnold #mentalhealth #consultancy #entrepreneur #publicspeaking #campaigner #eductation #teachertraining #changemaker #workshops #facilitator #anxiety #depression #bpd #bpdawareness #website #uk #business #mentorship

This time last year I’d just finished a month of conservation volunteering in Kenya and got to meet the best people, visit the most beautiful places, and see absolutely magical wildlife 🧡🌍✨. I remember wanting to go back as soon as I landed home and haven’t yet made it, so fingers crossed we can head that way again soon 🥰🌈🤞. MISS YOU ALL ❤️ @projectsabroadglobal

Time to talk about stuff ❤️&zwj;🩹

At the end of last year I was the lowest I’d ever been, being tossed between doctors and psychiatrists, and placed onto waiting list after waiting list, losing more hope every moment that went by. It was the

Time to talk about stuff ❤️‍🩹 At the end of last year I was the lowest I’d ever been, being tossed between doctors and psychiatrists, and placed onto waiting list after waiting list, losing more hope every moment that went by. It was the most awful awful, painful times I’ve experienced. In the end I received a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) or EUPD as it’s more recently known - a mental health condition widely misunderstood and stigmatised. I got the diagnosis in February, and this month started group Dialectal Behavioural Therapy (DBT), with people who have the same diagnosis. Alongside private 1-2-1 therapy, medication and working on lifestyle changes, this year has been entirely dedicated to recovery. The diagnosis, the challenges that come with it, the healing and learning to manage day-to-day life, continues to come with beautiful sparkly moments, and deeply painful moments that feel unbelievably dark and impossible escape. Recovery is hard and will continue to be a rocky journey for a while, but because I’ve let myself work hard on getting to a more hopeful place, I’m so pleased I’m finally taking a leap into what I’ve always really wanted to do.. ➡️‼️Starting a business which makes a difference, travels the country spreading messages of hope, fighting for equality, empowering other young people to understand the value of their voice and nurture their passion to help them create change themselves. ✨✨ This week I will be sharing my new website (eeek!), complete with services I offer, upcoming events that you can find me at, and inviting you to collaborate on campaigns which truly represent lived-experience voices at their heart 💜. There will still be moments when my brain is cloudy and feels like giving up, but let this be a reminder to myself and those of you struggling right now, that we can do things our mind makes us think we can’t. We are strong, we are capable of reaching for our goals, and we deserve to do what we love. Watch this space. ❤️

Sparkly Momenttttttt ✨✨✨ She wrote her name on the board !!!! eeeeeeee ! see photo twooo for the evidence 👀 another personal breakthrough in the world of overcoming this heavy anxiety and social tennis 🥰 I turned up on my own (!!) and wrote my name on the board !! (you write your name up to be in line to play) Honestly the act of writing my name on that board has terrified me for ages for no rational reason other than I didn’t want anyone to be forced to include me, or really know of my existence tbh 🫤. All the socials I’ve been to so far I’ve waited for someone to write my name up for me, or waited to be asked to play… It’s small and one of those personal wins that is difficult for anyone else to understand, but that doesn’t matter because it’s big to me so it’s worth a main grid spot in the documentation of the social tennis anxiety 👀 and I want to share it to remind you once again, that all small wins are worth celebrating. If it means something to you, it matters ✨ YAY. 💓

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