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 never really think or equate my life like that. I'm not sure we do.
We can't always anticipate what will happen in our life or how our life will play out, so it's not always easy to know whether we'd like to be the comma or the full stop. I know people who have struggled who haven't always wanted to carry on.
Either way it's important to be happy, content and at peace, whatever stage we're at. That way we're more likely to want to be the comma, as opposed to the full stop.
Nice quote. I think we would all prefer to be on our journey, faced with options and choices, rather than at the end of it.
I never really think or equate my life like that. I'm not sure we do.
We can't always anticipate what will happen in our life or how our life will play out, so it's not always easy to know whether we'd like to be the comma or the full stop. I know people who have struggled who haven't always wanted to carry on.
Either way it's important to be happy, content and at peace, whatever stage we're at. That way we're more likely to want to be the comma, as opposed to the full stop.
Inside this thinking I agree with Brad, who interpreted this quote brilliantly. But there should be rest stops along the way.
I'd like to stop, curl up, leave the rat race and hear the wind ricocheting off trees, for a little while anyway.
I would love to do what you suggest full time Tim... I can't think of anything better. My kind of life.