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 ...
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.