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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Something inspirational: "We are not what happened to us. We are what we choose to become.” JAMES HOLLIS "I am drawn to James Hollis's words: 'We are not what happened to us. We are what we choose ...
Something inspirational: "Healing begins when we can hold our own experience with compassion." TARA BRACH Brach's quote reminds us that healing begins when we meet our pain with kindness instead of judgement ...
For me what I think is being said is that most of the time we draw upon experiences that we've had in the past, but she's saying that we should live our life in the present and not to live it based on what our reaction was to a similar experience in the past.
It's very true, we can't live in the past because the outcome now could be different than what we would have experienced previously.
Yes our reactions to experiences now will be different to our reactions in the past when we first had those experiences.
This quote is open to many interpretations. For me it's easier to look back at our experiences in the past and learn from them, but that we mustn't live in the past. When we live in the past we will always fail to move forward.
True. We learn from the past but we cannot go back, we can only go forward and we cannot live in the past.
I've always heard "If only we had 20/20 vision," when it comes to how we live our lives we wouldn't make as many mistakes. If I knew then what I know now.
Thanks Lisa. I agree. It's also true that we don't always know, but can learn to work out and see the bigger picture so that we have more of that 20/20 vision you talk about.
Because we have little understanding on why things happen, we have little understanding on how we can change things and that's the problem.
For me what I think is being said is that most of the time we draw upon experiences that we've had in the past, but she's saying that we should live our life in the present and not to live it based on what our reaction was to a similar experience in the past.
It's very true, we can't live in the past because the outcome now could be different than what we would have experienced previously.
Yes our reactions to experiences now will be different to our reactions in the past when we first had those experiences.
This quote is open to many interpretations. For me it's easier to look back at our experiences in the past and learn from them, but that we mustn't live in the past. When we live in the past we will always fail to move forward.
True. We learn from the past but we cannot go back, we can only go forward and we cannot live in the past.
I've always heard "If only we had 20/20 vision," when it comes to how we live our lives we wouldn't make as many mistakes. If I knew then what I know now.
Thanks Lisa. I agree. It's also true that we don't always know, but can learn to work out and see the bigger picture so that we have more of that 20/20 vision you talk about.
Because we have little understanding on why things happen, we have little understanding on how we can change things and that's the problem.
I agree. The past is there to be learned from not lived in, otherwise we fail to grow.
Thanks and I agree.