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 ...
Thanks Tim. Yes, you have highlighted a problem many people are not aware of. But an unkind word, a bad tone, us having to defend ourselves, amounts to abuse.
Abuse literally goes on under our noses, and it's become a way of life. We don't see, or acknowledge that is what we're dealing with.
Perhaps we're scared of the unknown, but whatever our reasoning for staying and putting up with bad behaviour, living with someone who shows no empathy, compassion or tolerance, and who is by all accounts probably a narcissist, can make us ill.
Where you say 'I guess it takes time to see ourselves.' In these circumstances, getting to know ourselves can't come soon enough.
Many people are in abusive relationships but not fully aware of it. I guess it takes time to see ourselves and life as it really is.
So be aware of folks who have a need to treat you badly, as humans and rats are not that far apart.
Thanks Tim. Yes, you have highlighted a problem many people are not aware of. But an unkind word, a bad tone, us having to defend ourselves, amounts to abuse.
Abuse literally goes on under our noses, and it's become a way of life. We don't see, or acknowledge that is what we're dealing with.
Perhaps we're scared of the unknown, but whatever our reasoning for staying and putting up with bad behaviour, living with someone who shows no empathy, compassion or tolerance, and who is by all accounts probably a narcissist, can make us ill.
Where you say 'I guess it takes time to see ourselves.' In these circumstances, getting to know ourselves can't come soon enough.