Ilene Dillon

Ilene Dillon, MSW, has dedicated her life to helping people resolve personal challenges once and for all, then design life to be what they want it to be. A Transformation Specialist, she has worked 50 years as a psychotherapist and 15 years as a coach. She is a global speaker, Amazon International Best-selling author (The Wellness Universe Guide to Complete Self-Care, Volumes 1 and 2), podcast guest, and plans to give her first TEDx speech (on Anger) later this year. Ilene is also the author of Emotions in Motion: Mastering Life’s Built-in Navigation System and End Manipulation: Stop Being Jerked Around by Toxic, Energy-draining People. With her little dog, Pi, Ilene lives and travels full-time throughout North America in her RV, writing, teaching, and speaking along the way.

What Price Do We Pay for Not Claiming Mastery Over Emotions?

A fascinating thing about emotions explains why the first area we humans’ “study” in life is emotions. Emotions allow us to have memory! Without activated emotions, memory is eroded or deficient. Also, when we freeze emotions, which occurs when we don’t allow ourselves to feel them, we suppress memory. When we hold anger inside, it

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Emotional Mastery Gets You Off the Emotional \”Gerbil Wheel\”

Recently, a lot of people have been talking with me about their experience of going round and round with the same issues, the same emotions. They say they don’t like going over the pain of rejection again, or the anxiety of feeling not enough again. They also talk about how difficult it has been for

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Strengthen Your Emotional Resiliency in 2020

My sister-in-law, who is nearing 80 years old, is a champion Salsa Dancer. She started a couple of years after her husband died. It’s not like she didn’t have anything to do, either. She’s been helping high-level teachers in Pennsylvania do a stellar job of teaching children to understand literature, and write; for many years.

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7 Lessons I Wish I Was Taught When I Was Young

Human beings learn through their experiences. What are the things I wish I had been taught in my early learning, that would also be beneficial for all children? Babies are born with a level of confidence that ensures their survival, when uncomfortable, hungry, or unhappy, babies cry to alert those nearby to the negative condition.

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