Something inspirational: “You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.” NICHOLAS SPARKS, The Notebook
Something inspirational:
“You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
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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This quote is a little blunt but absolutely true. We need to be true to ourselves to be happy and the key to that happiness is not caring what anyone else thinks of us, but what we think of ourselves.
The days of me feeling the need to impress my worthiness on others, thankfully are well and truly behind me.
Thanks. Yes, this is absolutely true for many of us I'm sure, but particularly for me around my disability and my life.
We can still be true to ourselves and care about others, but they have to care about us. Where others fail to care about us, it becomes even more important for us to be true to ourselves.
Thanks Tim. Yes, you're right. Both praise and respect are often overlooked.
That said, it is important we do what is best for ourselves. In this dog-eat-dog world it has become even more important. Not everyone chooses to recognise what we do. I think that's the problem.
This quote is a little blunt but absolutely true. We need to be true to ourselves to be happy and the key to that happiness is not caring what anyone else thinks of us, but what we think of ourselves.
The days of me feeling the need to impress my worthiness on others, thankfully are well and truly behind me.
Thanks. Yes, this is absolutely true for many of us I'm sure, but particularly for me around my disability and my life.
We can still be true to ourselves and care about others, but they have to care about us. Where others fail to care about us, it becomes even more important for us to be true to ourselves.
I believe I have been rewarded on many levels by doing what I think is best for me. I have to feel good about my decisions at the end of the day.
Unfortunately, doing the right thing for myself in this dog-eat-dog world doesn't always bring praise.
Thanks Tim. Yes, you're right. Both praise and respect are often overlooked.
That said, it is important we do what is best for ourselves. In this dog-eat-dog world it has become even more important. Not everyone chooses to recognise what we do. I think that's the problem.