Supporting roles

Date 24 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
We end up doing the wrong thing when we struggle emotionally to do what we know is the right thing, but just can’t bring ourselves to do it. Emotionally we’re not always equipped to deal with everything that life throws at us, but what happens when someone is dealing ...
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First impressions

Date 21 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
As a society, we tend to form judgments about people very quickly. If we see someone who is overweight we’ve already assumed it’s because they’re eating too much or they’re not watching their health. We fail to take things they’re dealing with into consideration, for example whether someone has a…
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Childhood conditioning

Date 19 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
Whether you’re a child or a parent, you will have spent some of your time observing your own parents. It’s how we learn. Although I was conditioned and was expected to conform, I was never prepared for adult life, but we only know that when it’s our turn to navigate…
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Feelings now

Date 18 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
After a year of stress, my situation has changed again after my father’s passing and although my life is more peaceful, there is no getting away from what I’ve had to deal with. My blog helps with that. Having had to keep my feelings and thoughts in check for so…
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Our Legacies

Date 16 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
Our legacy is something we leave behind and is what people remember us by, long after we’ve left these shores. Our contributing legacies I'm not sure we realise that as we go about our daily lives, we automatically contribute ...
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It is what it is

Date 15 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
I am not sure why ‘it is what it is’ was on my mind today, but perhaps the situation with my parents gone, has brought this thought into my mind. I cannot change my own circumstances. It’s fine if you’re happy with the situation or outcome you are left with, but…
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A week passed

Date 13 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
I dedicate this blog to anyone who is still going through, or has gone through dealing with a relative who is terminally ill. It’s been a week since my father passed and I’m feeling okay about it. I’m just very tired. Although I dealt with my father’s illness the way…
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Misguided assumptions

Date 12 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
It’s funny how people will comment about a child’s success and then query at the same time how it’s even possible given the child’s parentage. Working on afforded opportunities Just because parents don’t always have the right opportunities, doesn’t mean they are any less clever than their children. Some children…
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After the storm

Date 10 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
As with all bereavements, life goes on after the funeral. My thoughts are calm. The mopping up process will begin next week. For now I’m taking time to chill and spend time with all my family, because as from Monday everything ...
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Conspicuous by absence

Date 9 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
Although I went to my father’s funeral, I’m not unhappy about it because I know he’s finally at peace. From my own experience of funerals though, they can often bring out the worst in us. I’ve been to many funerals and what is always noticeable is those people who fail…
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Parallel lives

Date 7 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
As a young adult, I used to see the passing of someone as a final gesture, not something that was an extension of where they had already come from: the spirit world. Before we’re born into this life, we come from spirit and have lived other lives. As we prepare…
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Issues and Illness

Date 4 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
I have always known how important it is for us to deal with personal issues before the person we have an issue with is no longer around. Working through my father’s illness taught me that. A few years after my mum passed, my father was told he had lymphoma. Because…
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