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.
Something inspirational: "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to be crowded on a velvet Cushion." HENRY DAVID THOREAU True happiness comes from freedom, simplicity and being yourself ...
Food for thought: "False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade." CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE In a nutshell: True friends stay ...
Food for thought: “The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions: Can we be equitable? Can we be generous? Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer ...
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.