Breathe yourself through anxiety

Date 4 June 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
Even with a good sense of self, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. It is one of the most common anxiety symptoms. It can weaken your coping abilities. It is important to acknowledge that you deal with anxiety. Stand back and take yourself out of the situation that is making you…
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Covid-19 Shines a Light on Mental Health

Date 31 May 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
If the pandemic has shown us one thing it’s that we all need to be thinking about and deal with mental health and we’re not. Mental health is usually for someone else. We’re too busy getting on with life to think about our emotions, or how we feel. We’re too…
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Being A Force For Good

Date 28 May 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
We should want to be a force for good. What you put out there matters. When you hand out kindness, you shall recoup some of that kindness back. If we carry animosity for others, we may never meet with success. Sabotaging other people’s success, means you can be sabotaging your…
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Our Past and Karma

Date 23 May 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
We have a choice, we can either choose to ignore and pretend a situation or issue doesn’t exist, or we can open the door and let the past teach us, what we need to learn. The past can resurrect itself whether we’re ready for it, or not. The past can…
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Quality of Life

Date 19 May 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
‘The general wellbeing of individuals and societies, including employment, wealth, the environment, education, physical and mental health, social belonging, and recreation time.’ – Google Our quality of life depends on our ability to create a life that we can enjoy, a life that we want to live for us, not…
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Spirituality and the Meaning of Life

Date 13 May 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
There are many definitions of ‘spirituality.’ Spirituality conjures up different interpretations and meanings, but spirituality shouldn’t have more than one meaning. The Oxford Dictionary gives the nearest definition of spirituality: “relating to or affecting the human spirit or soul as ...
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The Stigma of Mental Health

Date 9 May 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
Talk about ‘mental health,’ talk about how you feel. Tap into your thoughts, into your feelings, because they matter. How many of you really talk about mental health? Like disability, mental health also carries a stigma. Mental health ...
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We can all get sick

Date 7 May 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
It may be that you agree with the lifting of restrictions in the UK. I know how tying masks can be, but this isn’t one of those situations, where any of us have guarantees we won’t get sick, because the virus is still out there ...
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Not everyone's life is back to normal

Date 5 May 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
The world is dealing with a virus it can’t see and we don’t know is there and with the UK now open, without the restrictions, not all of us are back in our lives. Not everyone is able to mix, or socialise, either because they're ...
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Learning to Detach

Date 29 April 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
Learning to detach emotionally or physically isn’t easy, but it’s healthy. It’s something you may put off, but it should be something to consider, particularly if you’re emotionally struggling. Detaching If and when you do detach, detaching can help you see things in the longer term, and in a different…
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Covid-19, no guaranteed protection

Date 26 April 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
It may be that you agree with the lifting of restrictions in the UK, but this isn’t one of those situations, where we have a guarantee we won’t get sick. The virus is out there, it can continue to reinfect. No one is guaranteed protection You can’t see it, you…
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Parenting Styles

Date 22 April 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
I was a ‘seen and not heard’ child. I didn’t get a say in how things went, and with a disability, I admit to many years of mental and emotional struggle. Parenting styles can differ Parenting styles can differ. Authoritarian parents, expect their children to follow the rules without exception.…
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