Something inspirational: "Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living with love, grace and gratitude." DENIS WAITLEY
Something inspirational:
"Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living with love, grace and gratitude."
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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Wow, that makes a lot of sense, since I have tried so many different things to make me happy but nothing ever has.
I have had everything one could ever want in life and every reason in the world to be happy, but still always felt like something was missing.
There was nothing worse than being in that position and pretty much flushing it down the toilet, because I wasn't happy and blamed everyone else for it.
Now is the time when I need to learn how to live with myself and figure out what makes me really happy, rather than trying to make everyone else happy which is what I was forced to do as a child.
I am definitely no longer a child so I finally have the right to focus on my own life for once.
Thanks Tim. My site keeps me centered too. It's something I too have come to emotionally rely on daily.
Yes, black clouds will always hover our material things, you're right about that. The whole point to life, is not to collect or benefit from material gain but to look after ourselves and each other.
And whilst we fail to do the latter, we will also struggle with the former. That's how life works and is what the universe expects us to do. I have also seen it happen, so I know.
Wow, that makes a lot of sense, since I have tried so many different things to make me happy but nothing ever has.
I have had everything one could ever want in life and every reason in the world to be happy, but still always felt like something was missing.
There was nothing worse than being in that position and pretty much flushing it down the toilet, because I wasn't happy and blamed everyone else for it.
Now is the time when I need to learn how to live with myself and figure out what makes me really happy, rather than trying to make everyone else happy which is what I was forced to do as a child.
I am definitely no longer a child so I finally have the right to focus on my own life for once.
Thanks Randy. Yes, sadly, when you say 'there was nothing worse than being in that position and pretty much flushing it down the toilet.'
That's what tends to happen and you're right now is the time when we all need to learn how to live with ourselves and figure out what makes us happy.
I think society needs to concentrate on that now more than ever.
Black clouds hover over material things too, especially when we lose sight of ourselves.
I must say, I love the way this site keeps me centered.
Thanks Tim. My site keeps me centered too. It's something I too have come to emotionally rely on daily.
Yes, black clouds will always hover our material things, you're right about that. The whole point to life, is not to collect or benefit from material gain but to look after ourselves and each other.
And whilst we fail to do the latter, we will also struggle with the former. That's how life works and is what the universe expects us to do. I have also seen it happen, so I know.