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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My being a work in progress is definitely putting it mildly, seeing as I still have so much work to do.
The hardest part has been being with someone who hasn't been supportive and allowing this to influence my decisions, instead of just doing what I needed to do for myself.
The reality now is that I will have to live on my own to be able to do what I need to do, without any undue negative influences that have kept me paralyzed for far too long.
It would be helpful to not have to worry about being condemned and hassled for doing my own thing, which shouldn't be a crime in a relationship.
There are so many better things I could be doing with my time right now.
Thanks Randy. Yes, your life is for you to live, however you choose to live. Our reality is that it's not enough for us to talk about doing, it's important we do.
The problem is that we think we're done and others are works in progress. We are all works in progress.
My being a work in progress is definitely putting it mildly, seeing as I still have so much work to do.
The hardest part has been being with someone who hasn't been supportive and allowing this to influence my decisions, instead of just doing what I needed to do for myself.
The reality now is that I will have to live on my own to be able to do what I need to do, without any undue negative influences that have kept me paralyzed for far too long.
It would be helpful to not have to worry about being condemned and hassled for doing my own thing, which shouldn't be a crime in a relationship.
There are so many better things I could be doing with my time right now.
Thanks Randy. Yes, your life is for you to live, however you choose to live. Our reality is that it's not enough for us to talk about doing, it's important we do.
The problem is that we think we're done and others are works in progress. We are all works in progress.
How true is this? If we spent less time talking from our egos and more time listening, we might just not totally screw up our planet and each other.
Thanks. I'm going to leave this response with you.