Questioning Our Baggage

Date 25 July 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
To discover the root cause of what you're dealing with, to free yourself from baggage requires honest introspection. Not knowing what the root causes are, steals your energy from the many positive influences you may then ...
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Ungrateful & privileged

Date 22 July 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
Sadly, we live in a society and culture that encourages a sense of entitlement from some children, but not all. Even if we raise a grateful child, children may still go through the sense of entitlement, ungrateful stage. Although that doesn’t indicate whether they will stay ungrateful or entitled forever,…
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Emotional trauma

Date 18 July 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
A child who witnesses or experiences emotional or physical abuse, or struggles through neglect, will often show signs of trauma as an adult. Dealing with any type of abuse means those children will be affected, whether they realise they are, or not. Emotional trauma escapes no-one. Children will begin to…
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Our fairy tale lives

Date 16 July 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
Having a positive sense of self, can be our own fairy tale ending. But to have that we must choose to look behind our relationships at ourselves and be prepared to work at and incorporate emotional and spiritual growth. Relationships can’t and don’t give us the fairy tale ending. I’ve…
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Our psyche

Date 14 July 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
The psyche is the totality of the human mind, conscious and unconscious. It represents one of the fundamental concepts for understanding human nature. The psyche is the driving force behind our personality traits and behind our characters. Together they make up our personalities. Because much of our thinking and behaviour…
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About anger

Date 9 July 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
Unless anger is dealt with, it eats away at our very core, until of course we choose to deal with it. It can also make us ill. It’s a substitute emotion. Unconsciously, we make ourselves angry so that we don’t have to feel pain. What is anger? It’s an emotional…
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A different normal

Date 6 July 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
Having and dealing with a disability takes a different kind of normal from us, not something others cope with. It’s obviously easier for those with the disability to function with what they deal with because they’re the ones dealing with the disability. They adjust, they get on with it, but…
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Seeing with new eyes

Date 5 July 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
We spend a lifetime looking at things in the same way, failing to see and learn new things. As the French Novelist Marcel Proust once said, “The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.” We don’t have to discover new landscapes…
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Our approach to summer

Date 2 July 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
We're into summer time again and with annual holidays just around the corner, you’ll want to feel and be at your best. These are my top tips for staying healthy: Drinking fluids is important in the hot summer months, more so because it’s easy to dehydrate. Not only does water…
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The universe knows

Date 30 June 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
The universe works from a higher power. It knows exactly what we’re doing and when we’re doing it. If we’re being selfish, the universe knows that too; if we’re try to make a situation work to our advantage, the universe will always know we’re being selfish. We might try to…
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Trust and doing what's right

Date 26 June 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
We’re taught from an early age that we must do what’s right even if others don’t. Karma teaches us that we’re accountable for ourselves and accountable to others too, therefore it is important we do what’s right, even if others fail to do right by us. Doing what is right…
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Being nice

Date 23 June 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
Sometimes we’re better off staying away from people who almost make not being nice an art form. They’re mean. They’re also not the people you would choose to spend time with. As a nation, we’ve become more self-centred, more aloof, less patient, more selfish. We’re emotionally distracted. We don’t take…
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