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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Simplicity can also be about downsizing on how much material wealth we accumulate over the years, I agree; but the biggest advantage of simplifying our lives is dealing with our issues that cause us to carry baggage in the first place. Thanks Lisa.
I agree with you on both. Yes it is a nice quote and given that emotionally, baggage can make us physically ill, it's an advantage just to carry the minimum and no more.
I like this quote. It's true we need to leave some stuff behind in life, otherwise the load is too heavy and it causes emotional trauma, which is bad for us.
I agree. We just need the necessities in life to live. What's the use in having a lot of stuff; you can't take it with you.
Simplicity can also be about downsizing on how much material wealth we accumulate over the years, I agree; but the biggest advantage of simplifying our lives is dealing with our issues that cause us to carry baggage in the first place. Thanks Lisa.
I totally agree with this quote. Simplicity is freedom and less worry.
Ditto on your thoughts. Thanks Tim.
As we all carry our baggage with us, I guess it makes sense to lighten the load so that we just carry the minimum and no more. Nice quote.
I agree with you on both. Yes it is a nice quote and given that emotionally, baggage can make us physically ill, it's an advantage just to carry the minimum and no more.
I like this quote. It's true we need to leave some stuff behind in life, otherwise the load is too heavy and it causes emotional trauma, which is bad for us.
I absolutely agree with you on this. Thanks Maria.