Firstly, if you're reading my blog, thank you for reading. I don’t insist my readers follow my advice, or do as I do, but if something I write can make your life better then why wouldn’t you at least try?

Ignoring Mental Health

We've also started 2023, how we ended 2022. We're ignoring mental health. The world is changed. Through Covid-19, simply put governments have created division, bitterness, enmity between individuals, feelings of hostility, and ill will, in some cases serious feuds and long-standing grudges, all of which can affect your mental health.

Covid-19 has created divisions

Where Covid-19 could have brought us together, it has exposed us and our flaws. We should want to improve our relationship with each other because it's good for our mental health and because we need to be together. We should want to be better than we were yesterday, to be proactive with our mental health, and so that we can live better lives.

Mental Health Continues to Decline

On the 17th May 2023, it will be 13 years since I started The CP Diary. The UK did Brexit and in a global pandemic, it's why I write about both on my blog and why the world is continuing to see a heavy decline in mental health. Mental health is literally in its boots and it's not talked about. I talk about it.

Dealing with Mental Health Issues

I personally deal with and write about mental health on my blog The CP Diary, because I deal with a mental and emotional disability. But where you're continuing to ignore mental health, you're continuing to let illness in, so why not use 2023 to open the door on your mental health, or at least try to improve your mental health, how you deal with things?

And let's be honest we could all do with changing the way we deal with things. Also, use 2023 to change how you view mental health. Use 2023 to take charge of your mental health; to control how you deal with your mental health. Use 2023 also to come through mentally and emotionally stronger.

For Your New Year Resolution, why not buy one of my books?

For the price of 2 cappuccinos, you can buy one of my books. If you set yourself a New Year's Resolution why not pick up a copy of one of my books, so that you can deal with your mental health? Sale proceeds go to mental health charities, so you'll be helping those out.

To pick up a copy of my books, which are all deal with mental health, you can order Kindle or paperback copies on Amazon, and through the following link https://linktr.ee/Ilana_Estelle

Ilana Estelle is a mental health and wellbeing advocate who combines educational insight with her personal experience of living with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities. She holds diplomas in Counselling, Diet and Nutrition, Nutritional Therapy, Psychotherapy and Counselling, and Stress Management. Through her writing, Ilana supports others in navigating their emotional, mental, and physical health challenges. In addition to writing for The CP Diary, her work has appeared in healthy lifestyle magazines. Ilana is also the author of three books: Cerebral Palsy: A Story – Finding the Calm After the Storm, Spirituality, Healing and Me, and Survival: The Covid Years – Time for Change.

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