We think we know

Date 30 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Do we ever know someone, I mean really know someone? Perhaps it’s the people we think we know the most that we don’t know at all. There is a difference between knowing someone and knowing about them. And we never can know someone unless we work from the soul. The…
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Regaining control

Date 29 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
It’s always bad to invest our energy and get hooked on the wrong things that make us lose sight and control. The good part is that to regain control over our personal lives isn’t as hard as we think. Losing control means we’re powerless to regain control and that usually…
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Choosing not to care

Date 27 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
It is important we care, but it is not always important to care. There is a difference. We spend our lives caring, but caring only works when someone we care about, cares about us. We concern ourselves over the people who care less about us. We spend a lifetime trying…
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Willpower & determination

Date 25 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Willpower is essential if we are to achieve, overcome and succeed, so why do we fail at the willpower thing? What is it about willpower that has a tendency to stop us in our tracks, just when we need it the most? Leading research led by Roy Baumeister, Professor of…
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Children taking sides

Date 19 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Childhood experiences often show that adult relationships aren’t always happy ones and that even if children don’t see problems from the outset, it doesn’t mean those problems don’t exist, or they’re not affected by them. Children are very adept at picking up friction, even if on the surface those problems…
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Changing personalities

Date 18 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
How we see ourselves in a close relationship, can prompt us to alter how we define our identities, both in negative and positive ways. Our affections towards our significant half can influence how we see ourselves. Confidence and self-esteem and our dispositions, can influence changes in us in either negative…
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Settling for second best

Date 12 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
We mustn’t settle for second best and yet that is what we do, what some of us have always done. It’s not that we consciously set out to think about being second best, but it’s often how we see or treat ourselves. When we undermine our abilities, when we undersell…
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Bringing awareness

Date 11 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Bringing awareness to our emotions brings reasoning, where we didn’t have reasoning and where we have reasoning, we can work on change. Bringing awareness helps us recognise and understand how our emotions will affect us, and how our emotions will help us interact with others and what impact our emotions…
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The value of listening

Date 8 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
The art of our success isn’t achieved by speaking, but by our ability to listen. While some people may be impressed by how well we speak, more will be impressed by how well we listen. The best outcomes are governed by knowledge and wisdom and by our ability to intuitively…
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Parental influences & culture

Date 3 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
I believe it’s important we explore our thoughts, feelings and experiences, pertaining to parental influences and culture. In many respects, it’s how we learn to do things better and how we come to make positive changes in our life. Consciously, we may not always equate how influential our parents or…
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How not to be offended

Date 1 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
We come across and interact with people who knowingly or unknowingly are offensive and on our part, we let it happen. Only we have the power to stop it. It doesn’t have to be that way; we can all choose to communicate differently. We can choose to be a little…
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Understanding the caring

Date 28 March 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
There comes a time when we know the people who genuinely care, because their actions show they care. Then there are those who say they care, but their actions show a different understanding of what caring means. It is only when we come to understand that fact that we can…
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