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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Food for thought: “I just don't know how...to think less. If you know how, then teach me...” AISHAH MADADIY It's human to ruminate. To go over things. To revisit situations, conversations, even the ones that go well. I go over ...
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 ...
Thanks Tim. Yes, it's not easy working outside of our comfort zone, but sometimes I feel it's necessary, because that is ultimately how we grow.
There will be times where it's not necessary to venture out of our comfort zones, but that very much depends on the issue or people we're dealing with. Sometimes we're left with little choice.
But the more we think about things, the more emotionally mature we will become. Perhaps at that stage we probably wouldn't mind, coming out of our comfort zones.
Thanks. Yes, we seem to have got out of the habit, or we leave the thinking to others who don't mind thinking!
I really think it's a shame. If more of us thought things through, particularly in the first instance, we would all be in a difference head space in the world.
My thinking ends when I reach the edge of my comfort zone, just before I bite my bottom lip.
My sanity is way too precious to take it any further than that.
Thanks Tim. Yes, it's not easy working outside of our comfort zone, but sometimes I feel it's necessary, because that is ultimately how we grow.
There will be times where it's not necessary to venture out of our comfort zones, but that very much depends on the issue or people we're dealing with. Sometimes we're left with little choice.
But the more we think about things, the more emotionally mature we will become. Perhaps at that stage we probably wouldn't mind, coming out of our comfort zones.
I agree. Unfortunately in our automated, impersonal societies, so much work is carried out without thought, it's not even a requisite anymore.
Thanks. Yes, we seem to have got out of the habit, or we leave the thinking to others who don't mind thinking!
I really think it's a shame. If more of us thought things through, particularly in the first instance, we would all be in a difference head space in the world.