Your life, Your Decisions

Date 8 July 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
Although in your early years you may not start out in control of your decisions, or your life, it could be a cultural or family thing, or a society dictating your terms. It should be up to each of us to decide how we choose to live. Not everyone is…
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Keeping the wrong company

Date 7 July 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
There is such a thing as keeping the wrong company. There are good people who get caught up with people they put their faith in who don’t care for them. Those are the people they rely on, who they think will change for the better even though others are telling…
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Our realities in the present

Date 3 July 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
We see what benefits us, what conventional wisdom tells us to see and that can’t help us. We would rather be right than admit we’re wrong, than someone else prove us right. Changing our views would be an admission we’re wrong, or an incomplete understanding of an issue. When it…
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Give and Take

Date 2 July 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
There are givers and takers. For those of us who give, we put other people’s interests ahead of our own. Takers work on themselves, believing that taking care of themselves comes first, before the wants and needs of others. Adopting different behaviours Depending on the situation or circumstances, people may…
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There's a Certain Nastiness

Date 30 June 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
You'll probably have noticed that when you pick up a newspaper, or turn on the t.v. and what’s happening in the world today has changed completely. There seems to be no sense of decency or priority. What happened ...
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Accepting Disability

Date 28 June 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
When I was born in the 1960s, disability was scarcely mentioned in public discourse or legislation. Britain’s legal landscape was practically silent on the matter, except for references to compensation claims ...
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The value of positive emotions

Date 24 June 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
Having lived through experiences I wouldn’t want others to have experienced and not having the emotional support, I know and understand the beneficial psychological effects of talking about how we feel. Negative emotions and chronic illness Psychology has turned its attentions to researching and looking into negative emotions and negative…
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Making the connections

Date 21 June 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
When we’re not emotionally present, we will fail to make the connections between what we think and what we feel. Traumatic experiences will always prevent emotional development. Pain brought about through trauma isn’t always something we recognise, or we may know and keep it to ourselves. It’s rare we open…
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Principles of Morality

Date 17 June 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
If you believe in karma, you will know we are not punished for our sins, but by them. If we abuse for long enough, the very things that are precious to us, will be the very things we lose. It is something we must all think about. The universe judges…
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You are not your role

Date 14 June 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
Our jobs, society, family, heritage and culture, all create roles for us, but who we are has nothing to do with those roles. Uniquely and individually, we are us. Our personality should dictate who we are, rather than our roles dictate who we are. We are people first, our role…
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Holding a grudge

Date 8 June 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
My mum used to quote the saying ‘no one goes go to school to be a parent’, but that puts children at a disadvantage. It tells children that however their parents parent, they’re supposed to be okay with it. But it’s not always okay, because children’s lives are shaped by…
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OCD and Perfectionism

Date 4 June 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
The majority of us will hold ourselves to an impossible standard that is difficult to uphold, where we continue to aim for perfection. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Perhaps us having to have things perfect, is our way of saying we’re not good enough, or we’re not perfect. Those thoughts, together with…
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