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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Thanks Tim. Yes, for those of us who do our best, it sadly comes at a cost when others don't appreciate our best. Sadly, those are my experiences.
But then I come through, by telling myself that where those others don't appreciate my best, they've already made this about themselves and that gets me off the hook.
We don't have to convince or try to prove to anyone else what our best is. I think that's important.
I think I'd rather keep the best of myself a secret, or let it leak out gradually until I know it will be received properly.
Imagine my shock when I give the best of myself and no one really appreciates it.
Thanks Tim. Yes, for those of us who do our best, it sadly comes at a cost when others don't appreciate our best. Sadly, those are my experiences.
But then I come through, by telling myself that where those others don't appreciate my best, they've already made this about themselves and that gets me off the hook.
We don't have to convince or try to prove to anyone else what our best is. I think that's important.
As your saying goes, "as you sow so shall you reap." You can only expect to get back what you give out.
Absolutely. It's a shame we don't get that and then wonder why we struggle, in our lives and with others.