Exaggerating problems

Date 16 September 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
Making a big deal out of nothing or a mountain out of a molehill, is a scenario I’m sure we’re all familiar with. By treating a problem as greater than it is, or exaggerating the importance of something so trivial, means we will always make life unnecessarily overly complicated. Nothing…
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A perfect life

Date 14 September 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
If life were perfect I’d never learn, let alone change anything. If life were perfect I wouldn’t know how to cope when life was less than perfect. If life were perfect, I’d have nothing to learn from or to aspire to. If life were perfect, I’d take everything for granted…
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Looking ahead

Date 13 September 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
Today is a brighter day, dull outside but brighter inside. There’s a little bit of everything in today’s blog. A few blogs back, I wrote about weight issues and problems relating to reflux that I’ve had for many years. I am concerned, but not unduly worried about what long term repercussions…
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Getting on with life

Date 11 September 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
I have always got on with life and have never complained about anything. There would have been no point, no one was listening. There are those people whose cup is always half empty; always have something to complain about, something to moan about and something to be negative about. However,…
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The confident life

Date 10 September 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
Looking back at my life, particularly my upbringing, I’m not sure how I would have faired at university had I been allowed to go. There is no doubt that my struggles with confidence and leaving home were very much to do with having no support or guidance in my life.…
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Our new life

Date 8 September 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
We’re off to St Andrews today. Our new life begins.
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Good cop, bad cop

Date 7 September 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
Good cop or bad cop parenting, which category do you fall into? Either way both these roles can be damaging. This kind of parenting not only splits the parents, but splits the children as well because the good cop parent will always been the good parent by ...
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Arm's length relationships

Date 6 September 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
Do you know someone who is intent on keeping you in their life on their own terms and at arm's length? It tends to happen when there’s a history. It’s usually something that builds up over time, but if you’re not particularly bothered about the relationship being kept at arm's…
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Inevitable change

Date 4 September 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
With a few days to go before university, we’re all feeling somewhat apprehensive. It of course comes with the territory before change happens and is inevitable, even though we know what that change is going to be. I know things beyond Sunday will be fine. I am genuinely ...
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Wasted opportunities

Date 1 September 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
Not being upset that a parent isn’t in our life, doesn’t make us bad people. It highlights things for us that should have been changed that weren’t, when that parent was this side of life. It just allows us to distance our feelings. Whilst dealing with my father’s terminal illness,…
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Making our own mark

Date 30 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
Whilst waiting to go in and see my dentist yesterday, I was reading an article on the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and was just thinking how wonderful life is with the right support. It’s lovely to see how they’re putting their own mark on their lives together and how…
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Wanting to be me

Date 28 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
I’ve had to be my own emotional support, so it’s nothing new that I’m still doing it. When I’m around negativity, it reinforces everything that I’ve had to deal with that was negative that I have managed to turn my back on. I want just one day where I can…
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