Look for the beauty

Date 10 August 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
We will never achieve inner beauty if we fail to see the beauty in other things. It’s very easy when we’re busy not to see the world in all its perfection. We spend too much time living in our heads and not enough time soaking in the atmosphere of nature…
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Teaching children right

Date 8 August 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Children learn by example. If they trust what their parents say and it makes sense, they will want to emulate and do what we their parents do, eventually. If we get the parenting thing right, children should emerge with clear views on the most important values. It’s our value system…
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Choosing to be moral

Date 6 August 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
As long as we know right from wrong and have a conscience, we will follow a moral compass. Without basic rules surrounding morality, there will always be chaos in our homes and in our lives. We’re not all moral, but we can choose to be moral. It’s all a question…
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Navigating therapy

Date 3 August 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
After much deliberation I chose to go into therapy in my thirties, but I believe therapy may not always work for everyone. It’s not a cure-all, but as I go on to explain here, it does go some way to help. In my view there is always merit in therapy.…
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Dealing with shock

Date 31 July 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Dealing with shock isn’t something I’d like to experience again, but looking back it was helpful to know how shock felt, so that I could recognise the signs again if I needed to, and so that I could deal with any new situation differently. At the time, I didn’t understand…
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Having gratitude

Date 30 July 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
When we’re thankful for being able to experience and appreciate what we have, without a bad word directed at another, not only will we value our experiences more, but we will learn to live with and have gratitude. Gratitude is the quality of being thankful, a readiness for us to…
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Why we're never satisfied

Date 27 July 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
We tend to stretch and adjust our lives as we go along so that we reach our goals, but then inevitably we want more. We’re never satisfied. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons why we’re never satisfied. We can be satisfied, but that very much depends on us changing our perceptions.…
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Actions speak louder

Date 25 July 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Actions speak louder than words. Some of us will fail to do, as our words tend to speak louder than our actions, with no intentions of an action in sight. We’re masters at talking the talk, without acting on what we say. But there’s no point in talking, if we’re…
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Addressing our past

Date 23 July 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Instead of us constantly talking about our past, we need to change the way we think about it. We need to be okay with our past. We can’t change what’s already done, we can’t right a wrong in that way, but we can create a new thought process that helps…
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How the emotions work

Date 22 July 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
As a child we may spend our life observing our emotions. It is a way of righting a wrong, a way for us to understand our life and for us to understand that we don’t need to copy other people’s emotional behaviour. So how do the emotions work? It is…
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Opinions & opinions

Date 19 July 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
We must convey empathy, compassion and tolerance, instead of passing an opinion. For many people, life is centred on what they have to deal with, particularly around brain damage. It must be difficult for those who are born normally, then have something happen, for them to have to adapt into…
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Acknowledge emotional pain

Date 17 July 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
To heal emotional pain, we need to acknowledge it. Where that may seem obvious to some, others are not always aware of what that pain is. Outwardly, we don’t always make the correlations between now and our past experiences. We will all have varying degrees of emotional pain or trauma…
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