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: “What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again ...
Food for thought: “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” CARL ROGERS Acceptance doesn't mean we stop growing. It means understanding ourselves without judgement ...
Something inspirational: “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” VIRGINIA WOOLF Life isn't a race. There is no pressure to perform, compare or prove yourself. Just be 'you'. That's it.
This is very true. The big man has confidence for the most part, in his abilities to complete things. The smaller man has doubts in himself so he seeks the help of others, because of low confidence in himself.
The smaller man should learn to observe his mentor and make those ideas a thing to strive for. That would improve his confidence and improve his work.
Thanks Maria. Yes it seems to go like that, but perhaps this is all to do with our unconscious and has nothing to do with being superior or being small.
Our upbringing has a lot to do with the way we present ourselves. I believe that's more relevant. The superior man has a head start because he will be more imposing.
Even if the superior man struggled he would have presence, therefore outwardly would seem more confident.
I am not a superior man. Neither am I inferior to any man in any way. But rooted privilege makes some people feel superior and others feel inferior in their overall social construct.
There are systems in place that routinely confirm who is superior and who is inferior. But no one can make me feel inferior without my consent.
Thanks Tim, yes I couldn't agree more. Rooted privilege has a way of making us feel superior, but underneath we're all the same.
The universal reality is that we're all the same underneath; no on is better or worse than anyone else. If only we understood that analogy, we would all be better off and better people.
This is very true. The big man has confidence for the most part, in his abilities to complete things. The smaller man has doubts in himself so he seeks the help of others, because of low confidence in himself.
The smaller man should learn to observe his mentor and make those ideas a thing to strive for. That would improve his confidence and improve his work.
Thanks Maria. Yes it seems to go like that, but perhaps this is all to do with our unconscious and has nothing to do with being superior or being small.
Our upbringing has a lot to do with the way we present ourselves. I believe that's more relevant. The superior man has a head start because he will be more imposing.
Even if the superior man struggled he would have presence, therefore outwardly would seem more confident.
I am not a superior man. Neither am I inferior to any man in any way. But rooted privilege makes some people feel superior and others feel inferior in their overall social construct.
There are systems in place that routinely confirm who is superior and who is inferior. But no one can make me feel inferior without my consent.
Thanks Tim, yes I couldn't agree more. Rooted privilege has a way of making us feel superior, but underneath we're all the same.
The universal reality is that we're all the same underneath; no on is better or worse than anyone else. If only we understood that analogy, we would all be better off and better people.