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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I agree. The only expectations we need to consider are our own, especially if expectations are harmful negative ones; we certainly don't need that.
Sadly, others' expectations because they place expectations on themselves may always be harmful to us.
Expectations in themselves don't have to harmful. I think it's all about how those expectations are delivered and by whom.
Sometimes other people's expectations are unrealistic, but they still expect us to conform.