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.
Food for thought: "If you lose someone, but find yourself, you won." ANTHONY J. JAMES Losing someone doesn’t always mean losing them forever. Sometimes people walk away, sometimes we choose to leave, and ...
Something inspirational: “What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again ...
Food for thought: “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” CARL ROGERS Acceptance doesn't mean we stop growing. It means understanding ourselves without judgement ...
I agree. Sometimes when I'm studying I'm not thinking about what I'm studying; I'm thinking about something else so I don't remember what I just read, so I did it all for nothing and wasted my time.
I have to go back and re-study it. If we are thinking hard about something and don't learn anything from it it's for nothing.
Yes I completely agree, there is absolutely no point in one without the other, they go hand in hand and work best that way.
I have the same problem as Lisa. Sometimes when I read something it doesn't go in so I have to go back and re-read it, so I actually remember what I read!
I agree. Sometimes when I'm studying I'm not thinking about what I'm studying; I'm thinking about something else so I don't remember what I just read, so I did it all for nothing and wasted my time.
I have to go back and re-study it. If we are thinking hard about something and don't learn anything from it it's for nothing.
I agree with you Lisa.
I agree. Clever chap that Confucious.
Yes very!
Yes I completely agree, there is absolutely no point in one without the other, they go hand in hand and work best that way.
I have the same problem as Lisa. Sometimes when I read something it doesn't go in so I have to go back and re-read it, so I actually remember what I read!
I work that way too sometimes, particularly when I'm tired or I'm trying too hard to take something in.
The end result of how and what we learn is always more important. As long as we learn, I feel that is most important.