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 totally agree with this. We need to find pleasure in things for ourselves. We shouldn't have to depend on others for it.
When others aren't around what are we to do if we don't learn to find pleasure ourselves? Waiting on others makes us dependent on others and I've seen too many people get hurt from doing this.
I think you're absolutely right some of us will worry what other people think of our actions, but I do agree with you that we need to worry less and live our lives regardless.
I totally agree with this. We need to find pleasure in things for ourselves. We shouldn't have to depend on others for it.
When others aren't around what are we to do if we don't learn to find pleasure ourselves? Waiting on others makes us dependent on others and I've seen too many people get hurt from doing this.
Thanks Lisa. I totally agree with your sentiments. We must always rely on ourselves first. That is so important to our health and well being.
As you rightly say, it's easy to get hurt when we rely on others.
I guess this sums up Madonna's philosophy nicely. I get the impression she never was one to ask permission.
While I agree it's important to please ourselves it can be nice to please others too, sometimes.
I think you're probably right and yes I agree.
Most of the time we worry what people will think of our actions. We need to go out and Live Life!
Thanks Maria and welcome to the site.
I think you're absolutely right some of us will worry what other people think of our actions, but I do agree with you that we need to worry less and live our lives regardless.
I agree with Maria. We do have a tendency to worry about what other people will think and I'm guilty of that.
Add that to the list of things to sort out!
It's certainly not unusual to have a list! The idea is that we cut down on that list, so we avoid the worry too.
That's probably one of the biggest problems we give ourselves... worry!