Adapt and change

Date 19 June 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
Adapt and change, stagnate or get left behind. The capacity to adapt comes through our ability to deal with the mental, emotional and physical challenges. How we manage to incorporate a new mind set and our subsequent behaviour, determines how successful our new mind-set and behaviour pattern will be. The…
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Education -v- being worldly

Date 18 June 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
Education opens the mind to new and exciting possibilities, but education isn’t necessarily about formal education. I didn’t quite tick the box on a formal education through no fault of mine, but still believe that just by living, failing and finding an understanding on living we educate ourselves. The more…
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Dealing with change

Date 14 June 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
We’re born, we grow and we change. Although change comes from a multitude of places, it’s how we change and come through change that matters. Change initially comes through school, through peer pressure, through culture and society, primarily because we’re expected to fit in and conform. Moving away from home…
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The art of resisting

Date 11 June 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
We resist the very things that will help us grow and move forward with our lives. We control and box the things we don’t want to deal with in the hope that those things will stay boxed. It’s almost become an art form because we do it so well. We…
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Family that fall out

Date 8 June 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
Families either work or they don’t work at all. There seems to be no half measures. It’s important how children get to interact with their parents, how individually parents interact with their children, how children interact with their siblings and why sometimes those relationships don’t work. According to research, jealousy…
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Thoughts for positive change

Date 7 June 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
A study by researchers at California University in 2010 suggests that by the time we’re 7 years old our characters are fully formed. (Source: https://www.livescience.com) But what happens when we’ve had no support, when that voice in our head belittles our very existence, when it starts to draw comparisons with…
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Social stress & blood pressure

Date 4 June 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
There are suggestions that short-term stress-related spikes in blood pressure add up over time and may be putting us at risk of developing long-term high blood pressure. The jury is still out on this one and more research is needed. When we’re in stressful situations or we’re constantly being exposed…
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Malicious undertones

Date 2 June 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
With any form of undertone comes an undercurrent of feelings, bubbling under the surface and that can bring with it malicious intent. And through that malicious intent, through hurting and struggling with something will emotionally lash out at the ones we love, spend the most time with. The nature of…
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Working on our core values

Date 30 May 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
Unless we walk a mile in another person’s shoes, we can never know what that person struggles with, but that shouldn’t stop us from trying to help. It goes back to our core values and what we’re taught as children. We don’t start out with empathy or compassion, but we…
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Things coming full circle

Date 29 May 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
Have you ever noticed how after a series of events, the same situation you started with still exists and you end up back at the place you initially chose to walk away from? Even if we don’t believe in how the universe works, what is meant to happen will always…
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Closure through dreams

Date 26 May 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
Dreams bring to life unresolved issues, thoughts and feelings that we struggle to deal with through our conscious thoughts. And even if we’re not seeing those as struggles, our unconscious won’t let those thoughts or feelings go until we recognise and deal with them. Dreams can allow us to let…
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Not enough listening

Date 23 May 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
Not enough listening and too much talking. Our job isn’t so much to give our opinion, but to listen instead, or better still, allow the other person to ask for an opinion, without us thinking it’s our right to give one, let alone stand in judgment. Perhaps that’s where we’re…
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