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.
Something inspirational: “Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.” DORIS LESSING Thinking for yourself means more than having your own opinions. It means owning your words, your choices, and ...
Something inspirational: "We are not what happened to us. We are what we choose to become.” JAMES HOLLIS "I am drawn to James Hollis's words: 'We are not what happened to us. We are what we choose ...
Something inspirational: "Healing begins when we can hold our own experience with compassion." TARA BRACH Brach's quote reminds us that healing begins when we meet our pain with kindness instead of judgement ...
It seems like people are willing to fight for their own opinions, even if it kills them. There are prime examples of that right now where people are refusing to follow any of the suggestions about the Coronavirus, even though the suggestions are in their own interests.
Even worse is the fact that they are there to help protect other people too, which goes to show they don't give a damn about anyone else.
I have dealt with so many people like this, now I refuse to tolerate being treated poorly by those kind of people, and my life has become so much better for it.
Now if more people would smarten up and pull their heads out of other people's business that would be fantastic, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
There is an element of truth in your comment Randy. Yes, it's fine to have an opinion and it is to be welcomed but to ignore advice particularly around something like the coronavirus is foolhardy.
The saying 'it won't happen to me' means it invariably will. Having an opinion is fine, but we must include common sense, so that we make the right decisions based on informed opinions.
Not to be offensive, but some folks have obsessive attachments to opinions that are absolutely ridiculous and they usually want to dominate the conversation.
But I guess the mind absorbs all kinds of things that it can't forget.
You're absolutely right Tim. You're being real. Family tend to dominate the conversation. Yes, the mind absorbs too much negativity and it's usually around other people's opinions.
It's more important we act as a support and offer opinions when we're asked. Arguments usually start when our opinions become more important than people.
It saddens me that this quote describes too accurately many current world leaders whose stubbornness and non-intelligence, coupled with a lack of compassion and integrity, holds the planets future in balance.
It seems like people are willing to fight for their own opinions, even if it kills them. There are prime examples of that right now where people are refusing to follow any of the suggestions about the Coronavirus, even though the suggestions are in their own interests.
Even worse is the fact that they are there to help protect other people too, which goes to show they don't give a damn about anyone else.
I have dealt with so many people like this, now I refuse to tolerate being treated poorly by those kind of people, and my life has become so much better for it.
Now if more people would smarten up and pull their heads out of other people's business that would be fantastic, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
There is an element of truth in your comment Randy. Yes, it's fine to have an opinion and it is to be welcomed but to ignore advice particularly around something like the coronavirus is foolhardy.
The saying 'it won't happen to me' means it invariably will. Having an opinion is fine, but we must include common sense, so that we make the right decisions based on informed opinions.
Not to be offensive, but some folks have obsessive attachments to opinions that are absolutely ridiculous and they usually want to dominate the conversation.
But I guess the mind absorbs all kinds of things that it can't forget.
You're absolutely right Tim. You're being real. Family tend to dominate the conversation. Yes, the mind absorbs too much negativity and it's usually around other people's opinions.
It's more important we act as a support and offer opinions when we're asked. Arguments usually start when our opinions become more important than people.
It saddens me that this quote describes too accurately many current world leaders whose stubbornness and non-intelligence, coupled with a lack of compassion and integrity, holds the planets future in balance.
Thanks. Yes, I couldn't have put it better. I pray your sewing a seed brings positive change moving forward post pandemic.