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 ...
True. We shouldn't want to change others. They have to want to change themselves.
I think most people that want to change others, are doing it to benefit themselves not the person that they want to change. People want others to be what they want them to be.
Then there are some that want to change others for their own good. That's okay but you can't change someone for your good, if they don't want to change themselves.
Thanks Lisa. You're right we cannot change others, others have to want to change themselves.
Wanting others to change in itself can bring about stress. I believe though that when we come to accept others as they are, we are more likely to have peace of mind. This quote is so true.
True. We shouldn't want to change others. They have to want to change themselves.
I think most people that want to change others, are doing it to benefit themselves not the person that they want to change. People want others to be what they want them to be.
Then there are some that want to change others for their own good. That's okay but you can't change someone for your good, if they don't want to change themselves.
Thanks Lisa. You're right we cannot change others, others have to want to change themselves.
Wanting others to change in itself can bring about stress. I believe though that when we come to accept others as they are, we are more likely to have peace of mind. This quote is so true.
I agree not wanting to change others can contribute to achieving peace. If there is any need for change, then that should come from ourselves.
You're right, any change must come from ourselves, but I'm not sure how many people will see the need for themselves to change.
Other people will see it, but we don't and if we do see it, we won't always agree we need to change. It's normally someone else at fault.