Something inspirational:

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.“

DANIEL DEFOE

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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2 comments on “A Daniel Defoe quote”

  1. I completely agree. If we are to achieve a deeper and higher context for our lives, then we must work on our soul and I can think of no better place to start, than this amazing website.

    1. Thank you. Yes, I have seen so much change in the last 6 years since the UK called time on the EU.

      Truthfully, it has been a struggle to continue to keep the interest there, but I know how it helps me and how it will still continue to help others so I continue. My website has taken a knock, first through years of dealing with Brexit, now in Covid-19.

      The soul is the part of us that speaks the universal truth, different to our truth. The irony is if we were to concentrate and work from the soul, the world would look and feel different.

      I have heard it said and it's not hard to see in our everyday lives, how through Covid-19 people have changed and not for the better.

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