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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We used to say that an idled mind is the devil's workshop, which means we momentarily yield to fear, possibly darkness within. We'll never dislodge those thoughts until we take action, but I wouldn't expect a miracle instantly.
It helps when I have a real honest-to-goodness look at things and a temporary change of environment helps too. Otherwise, I'll keep pushing negative thoughts deeper and deeper into my mind.
Thank you. Yes, around anxiety that is what I do too. I used to have to keep myself busy to dislodge any bad thoughts.
I still struggle today, not surprisingly with what I've had to deal with. But your second paragraph Tim sums up your response beautifully.
It's a shame the temporary change in environment doesn't become more permanent. Moving away temporarily from something although light relief that is sadly all it is.
We used to say that an idled mind is the devil's workshop, which means we momentarily yield to fear, possibly darkness within. We'll never dislodge those thoughts until we take action, but I wouldn't expect a miracle instantly.
It helps when I have a real honest-to-goodness look at things and a temporary change of environment helps too. Otherwise, I'll keep pushing negative thoughts deeper and deeper into my mind.
Thank you. Yes, around anxiety that is what I do too. I used to have to keep myself busy to dislodge any bad thoughts.
I still struggle today, not surprisingly with what I've had to deal with. But your second paragraph Tim sums up your response beautifully.
It's a shame the temporary change in environment doesn't become more permanent. Moving away temporarily from something although light relief that is sadly all it is.
Moving away permanently is exactly what's needed.