Petty and Mean Behaviour

Date 4 September 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
I am sure we’ve all come across people in our lives, the ones who are petty, mean and added to that, those who facilitate bad behaviour no matter what. Those are the people who are selfish, only focused on themselves and their problems with their why me attitude, attempting to…
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Children & respect

Date 3 September 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
As a child, it didn’t matter what my parents said, I was respectful. I never stopped to question their authority or their decisions. We’re not born knowing about respect, but with the right disciplines in place, we learn the importance of respect and being respectful towards others, especially those older…
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Living life with purpose

Date 31 August 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
If we’re fortunate enough to have support that helps us live our lives with purpose, we will always try to make our lives better. If we’re never encouraged to think outside the box, to think about life and what we want from it, we may never get to the place…
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Positive Communication

Date 30 August 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
It matters that how we say what we say resonates with people in positive ways. When we disregard another person’s healthy emotional pathway and instead use pull downs to communicate, it says a lot about us and where we are with our own emotions. It is important that if we…
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Stress & truth

Date 27 August 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
It is usually when we’re at our most stressed that we blurt the truth out. It is exactly what is needed, we’ve just never had the courage to say it. Perhaps somewhere in our subconscious, we have already made the correlation that stress and truth are inextricably linked, it’s just…
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Feel what you feel

Date 26 August 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
We hide behind different guises. We’re good at disguising, hiding emotional pain that comes from negative beliefs brought about by a person, or a particular situation. Those different guises are fear induced. We’re afraid that if we show our vulnerability, we’ll be letting our guard down and that makes us…
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Healing through reflection

Date 23 August 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Reflection is a process that allows us to create an internal space for exploring traumatic experiences that have hurt and continue to hurt us. Reflection works better when we practise it on our own and is a good way for us to explore our internal dialogue. Reflection is a good…
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Life is what we choose

Date 20 August 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
The emotional solitude path stops us from communicating, being part of something that has the potential to be good. Life is what we choose. When we fail to see what’s in front of us and continue to dwell on how we would like things to be, the picture we paint…
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Practising Mindfulness

Date 18 August 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Mindfulness is a tool that has become helpful to mental health professionals. Cultivating mindfulness is a powerful practice in therapy. If practised regularly, it’s a tool that can help us understand, stay in control and deal with our emotions in a healthy way. Mindfulness allows us to change our daily…
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Verbal bullying

Date 15 August 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Do we ever think about the way we respond to what someone says, even if what they’ve said isn’t rude or offensive and yet we still take offence and retaliate? When we use words in a negative way that insults, belittles and pulls people down in a way to gain…
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How karma works

Date 14 August 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Whether we believe in karma or not, does its theory hold good, irrespective of whether we believe in it or not? The law of nature is that any system will return to its original state of balance, unless a new force holds it at a different level. If and when…
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Experiences Change Us

Date 11 August 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
I’ve used Lewis Carroll’s quote on The CP Diary before about how we can’t go back to yesterday, because we were different people then. And yet, in many ways, we do. We revisit yesterday not as who we were then, but as ...
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