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: “Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.” DORIS LESSING Thinking for yourself means more than having your own opinions. It means owning your words, your choices, and ...
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 ...
I can see that if we take the opportunity to reassess and re-evaluate.
Unfortunately rejection can have spiralling negative effects on morale and self-esteem and understandingly, we often find it difficult to see the positives in it.
That's how things usually go, you're right; but I actually agree with this quote. It all depends on whether your cup is half full or half empty.
I always look for the positives. Just because we fail at one thing doesn't mean we will fail at other things. Always see rejection as an opportunity to reassess.
It used to be that when something wasn't decided in my favor it cut me in half and made me feel awkwardly exposed. I found that I wasn't an exception after all.
So I hid my pain, starting trusting myself and moved on.
Thanks Tim. Yes, it's hard; but it's often not personal to us, we just see it that way. We take it personally.
Perhaps that's what we need to take out of the equation that it's not personal to us. In those circumstances, the decision maker thought the other person was a better fit.
I can see that if we take the opportunity to reassess and re-evaluate.
Unfortunately rejection can have spiralling negative effects on morale and self-esteem and understandingly, we often find it difficult to see the positives in it.
That's how things usually go, you're right; but I actually agree with this quote. It all depends on whether your cup is half full or half empty.
I always look for the positives. Just because we fail at one thing doesn't mean we will fail at other things. Always see rejection as an opportunity to reassess.
It used to be that when something wasn't decided in my favor it cut me in half and made me feel awkwardly exposed. I found that I wasn't an exception after all.
So I hid my pain, starting trusting myself and moved on.
Thanks Tim. Yes, it's hard; but it's often not personal to us, we just see it that way. We take it personally.
Perhaps that's what we need to take out of the equation that it's not personal to us. In those circumstances, the decision maker thought the other person was a better fit.