Kiwi and banana smoothie

Date 17 June 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
Ingredients: 2 fresh peeled and chopped kiwi; 1 pear peel and chopped; 2 ripe bananas and either 2 plain or 2 kiwi flavoured yoghurts. You can also add pumpkin and sunflower seeds ...
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The good mood fruit cocktail

Date 14 June 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
Did you know the human body doesn’t produce the well-known feel good chemical Serotonin without another chemical called tryptophan? It makes sense therefore, for us to try and increase our intake of this tryptophan in an attempt to enhance our mood. Luckily for us tryptophan is found naturally in bananas…
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What our clothes say about us?

Date 11 June 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
How many of us choose our wardrobe around our moods? Do you wear certain clothes for a certain day or do you wear clothes to hide how you feel? Does what you wear leave a lasting impression? We should dress to feel good. Clothes express our personalities, so we should…
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Why a good attitude matters?

Date 8 June 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
A passing thought: How many of us do a job that we’re really not keen to do? We know we have to do it, so we do it without putting our heart and soul into it. If we tell ourselves we're going to enjoy the job, we’ll do it with…
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Caffeine

Date 4 June 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
A passing thought: If you're trying to cut down on stress, reduce the amount of daily caffeine you consume. Drinking more than 2 to 3 cups of hot chocolate, tea or coffee a day may produce noticeable mood changes, as well as affecting our emotional and physical health. Did you…
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Acceptance of nice things

Date 1 June 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
Something inspirational: If we are lucky to have nice things in our life, we should be grateful and thankful we have them. Do we concern ourselves over having nice things and therefore stop ourselves from enjoying them? Maybe we’re not accepting of nice things because we never started out with…
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Make a living

Date 28 May 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
Something inspirational: “We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.” WINSTON CHURCHILL
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Recognising our own qualities

Date 25 May 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
Do you think about what you like about ourselves or what is good about you? Do you pay yourself compliments on your achievements or complement others on what they achieve, but wishing you had done more? We may do that with our children, with other people’s children, but probably reluctant…
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A life of making mistakes

Date 21 May 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
Something inspirational: “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
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The CP Diary is 1 today

Date 17 May 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
The CP Diary is 1 today. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those people who read my blogs and to all my friends who have responded on my blogs and supported me. I couldn't have done it without you ...
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Geopathic Stress

Date 14 May 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
When you care about your health, you should want to know about geopathic stress. Knowing about it will help you make an informed choice about what it is, or whether you need to act on it. It's the name given to natural and man-made energies coming from the earth, which…
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Two ways to live life

Date 10 May 2011
Author Ilana Estelle
Something inspirational: "There are only two ways to live your life. One is though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." ALBERT EINSTEIN
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