Yet more changes

Date 25 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
As university is fast upon us, it’s hard to think that in just two weeks our lives will change again. It’s not just about university, it’s the whole package, it’s coming home more with a completely different mindset than when they left. Leaving home changes a person, invariably the person…
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Handling bad news

Date 24 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
I’ve never been great at responding to bad news. As a child I would unconsciously talk myself into things as a result of any bad news. As the adult I try to cope with bad news, positively. I know that attitude and focus may help pave the way for positive…
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Time for change

Date 22 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
I wish I’d got to this stage in my life with more control over the decisions I wanted to make, but had no choice. It’s only when someone close to us moves away that we bring into question what we’ve accomplished, up to that point. In just under three weeks…
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The healing process

Date 20 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
When we can accept people’s bad points as well as good, we know we’ve worked through a process of understanding. When we can continue to have a relationship with the people who hurt us and are willing to let the hurt go, we know we’ve worked through the healing process.…
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Crossing paths

Date 18 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
I have always gone with the belief that things happen for a reason, but I also believe though that things don’t sometimes happen because of a reasoning not always known to us at the time, but that we may learn later why. That happened to me fairly recently, but on…
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Pressures of change

Date 16 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
Our lives are going to change again in three weeks when Claudia leaves home for the first time. With A level results behind her now, tonight seems like an anti-climax. The build up to exams has been enormously difficult for all of us. Emotionally we’ve had to deal with those…
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Living with conflict

Date 15 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
In an ideal world, children will grow up without conflict in their lives, but for many children that doesn’t always happen. I have seen through the eyes of other children, what it was like to live with parents who didn’t fight, but those weren’t my experiences. I was no stranger…
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Feeling invisible

Date 13 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
Does anyone get those days where they begin to feel invisible or transparent, where they're talking but nobody’s listening, where they can’t seem to say or do the right thing even though they know they’re doing all the right things? Don’t you just feel you could hibernate until ...
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Things left unsaid

Date 9 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
Things are left unsaid because we’re afraid to point them out; things are left unsaid because we’re unsure what we say will either be misrepresented or won’t be heard at all. Things are left unsaid because we don’t find it easy to say what feel we have to say. We…
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The incompetence of some

Date 6 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
It’s been such a frustrating day, because I’ve met with so much incompetence. This morning I phoned my doctor’s surgery to get the results of an additional cholesterol test and after a difficult conversation with the receptionist, found out that because of a strike at the blood labs, my blood…
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Our need for things

Date 4 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
Have you ever talked yourself into buying something because you’re convinced you need it, then when you’ve got it find it’s not what it was cracked up to be? If I was told I had to choose between two cars I would choose the one I liked, but if someone…
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Moods & moral standings

Date 3 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
Bad moods are completely contagious. I should know I’ve grown up around them. But did you know bad moods can change our moral standings too? Research has now been carried out by a group of German researchers whose work has been published in 'Cognition' and their conclusion is that our…
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