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.
Food for thought: "I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about ...
Something inspirational: “Anyone can learn to fight. Hardly anyone learns to think.” TAMSYN MUIR, Gideon the Ninth Muir's quote reminds us that fighting is not just about physical strength; it can mean arguing, resisting ...
Food for thought: “All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you.” OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, Parable of the Sower This quote reminds us that everything we do has an impact, and every experience changes ...
Of course, karma is standing by to deliver justice if we take advantage of someone's weakness. I have a sense when that kind of justice is being served.
We'd better get it right before everything goes dark.
I was raised in an environment where taking advantage was not only condoned, but highly encouraged, so it has been a difficult thing to avoid, when the chance was right there.
I was reminded of this recently when I had a chance and decided to take it, when it was definitely the wrong thing to do. I didn't feel very good about myself afterwards, so I've had to sit with guilt and then try to make amends for it.
I was buried under a mountain of guilt, shame and remorse that wasn't my own, so it's no wonder I don't always recognize when those old behaviors surface right away.
I'm just trying to do the right things now so that I can finally live my own life, without feeling guilty for just enjoying it.
Thanks Randy. Yes, what you describe is exactly what happens when we do something we're not supposed to do and then grapple with guilt later on. We've all done it.
I think it's important we always do what's right. Not only does it make for a more harmonious relationship, but it's the right thing to do.
Of course, karma is standing by to deliver justice if we take advantage of someone's weakness. I have a sense when that kind of justice is being served.
We'd better get it right before everything goes dark.
Thanks Tim. You're absolutely right. I think your last paragraph sums up your response beautifully.
I dread to think what will happen if we continue to get this wrong. The world I grew up in, isn't the world I see now.
We need to do more to help one another. It's back to basics on this one.
I would agree we grow spiritually, as we do not take advantage of others. As Tim says karma is watching!
Thanks. Yes, Tim is right... karma is watching and waiting in the wings.
If we did just one thing a day to help someone instead of taking advantage, just think how much better we and the world would be.
I was raised in an environment where taking advantage was not only condoned, but highly encouraged, so it has been a difficult thing to avoid, when the chance was right there.
I was reminded of this recently when I had a chance and decided to take it, when it was definitely the wrong thing to do. I didn't feel very good about myself afterwards, so I've had to sit with guilt and then try to make amends for it.
I was buried under a mountain of guilt, shame and remorse that wasn't my own, so it's no wonder I don't always recognize when those old behaviors surface right away.
I'm just trying to do the right things now so that I can finally live my own life, without feeling guilty for just enjoying it.
Thanks Randy. Yes, what you describe is exactly what happens when we do something we're not supposed to do and then grapple with guilt later on. We've all done it.
I think it's important we always do what's right. Not only does it make for a more harmonious relationship, but it's the right thing to do.