How I feel

Date 22 December 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
I hate how I feel sometimes, I also hate what I have to deal with. My cerebral palsy is feeling a whole lot worse since we hit the cold spell and I’m feeling more despondent. As a consequence dealing  with other ...
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Ways of building resilience

Date 21 December 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
Culture has a tendency to impact on our resilience. We’re born into a world where culture is important, but not everyone is accepting of their culture, like our parents or grandparents were. The culturally diverse society we live in makes it all much harder, because others will form opinions on…
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Simplifying your life

Date 19 December 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
I have noticed that in general society has become more materialistic. We want more than we can afford to have, own or need. We buy too many material things and whilst some children have more now than our generation had, more than our parents’ generation had; they seem less happy…
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About resilience

Date 16 December 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
Resilience helps with life’s journey. It doesn’t matter whether we need it to help us cope with a serious illness, or the death of a loved one, it’s resilience that gets us through. Resilience also helps us pave the way for a more calm and peaceful existence. Resilience is a…
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A journey of resilience

Date 15 December 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
Although my not so positive days come with the territory, I am trying to get to grips with my family’s life-changing experience. Whilst continuing with my usual blogs, I thought it might be helpful to explore the different thoughts, on how in general we ...
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Some of the same feelings

Date 13 December 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
So here I am blogging about my feelings again. It’s never a great surprise to me that my thoughts and feelings constantly change. When a child experiences trauma, it should be something the whole family work through too. Dealing with trauma is always difficult. To wake up one day and…
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Hostility

Date 12 December 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
Being hostile towards others because we’re finding life tough isn’t right, particularly if it means us alienating the people we care about the most. Hostility I have seen what happens, when a person responds to a given situation in a less than friendly manner when they become hostile, argumentative and…
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Compassion

Date 11 December 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
The first step in developing compassion is empathy, because without empathy we can’t have compassion. Sadly, not only do we not practice compassion, but we fail to show empathy to those who need us to empathise with them ...
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Winning through losing

Date 9 December 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
From an early age, we learn from our parents and society how significant it is for us to win, but what it means to lose is even more important. Losing is inevitable We can be prepared, trained, focused and experienced and still not win. Losing is an inevitable part of…
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Convincing others

Date 8 December 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
Isn’t it frustrating when you tell someone something and you end up having to convince them before they’ll agree with you? Not all people accept what we say. We almost have to convince them to accept a new belief on what they already know or believe. In some cases we…
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Resentment

Date 6 December 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
Resentment comes from feeling we’ve been treated unfairly, when we find it hard to forgive those who have wronged us. When we hold on to negative experiences we will begin to harbour feelings of resentment. Holding on to resentment The more we hold on to negative experiences, the more we…
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Taking advice

Date 5 December 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
Have you noticed how people aren’t inclined to take advice, even when the advice is free or offered with love and sincerity? Accepting another person's perspective Perhaps it’s because we haven’t thought those thoughts first, so we’re slightly aggrieved that someone else has? We tend to like to work things…
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