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 ...
When people realize you're not going to live life their way or be subjected to their way of life, they begin to realize it's no longer business as usual.
So true! When we start living our life according to our own standards, people notice.
Thanks Lisa. They may also not like what they see, particularly if we happen to have lived our lives the way they want us to.
I agree with Lisa and Ilana. People notice and they don't always like the change they see.
Thank you. People always feel more comfortable being in control. They're not comfortable with having to adapt.
People by nature aren't great with change, they like life to run smoothly the way they want.
Brad and Lisa are absolutely right.
When people realize you're not going to live life their way or be subjected to their way of life, they begin to realize it's no longer business as usual.
Thanks Tim. Brand and Lisa are right as are you.
When you take it's no longer business as usual out of the equation, life with that person becomes a little uncertain and that's hard.