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 believe this to be true. Unfortunately though, we live in a world where right has become wrong and wrong has become right, making people sick and confused; I've seen this from my very eyes.
But there are splendid citizens out there, I just don't hear them or see them enough.
I believe this to be true. Unfortunately though, we live in a world where right has become wrong and wrong has become right, making people sick and confused; I've seen this from my very eyes.
But there are splendid citizens out there, I just don't hear them or see them enough.
Thanks Tim. Yes, there is definitely truth in your suggestion. I also think it's a non-moral issue. We're less virtuous than we used to be.
We're too quick to point the finger at others first, rather than look to ourselves.
Like Tim, I too believe this is true. By behaving properly, we can be someone who others model themselves on and maybe help raise the world a little.
Or we can be someone that helps to make the world a worse place. We have enough of the latter, so I choose the former when I can.
Thanks. Yes, I think it's vital. We're not doing enough of it. It's not enough to talk about these things, we must act.
I also believe we must be the someone who others model their behaviour off. If more of us did this, the world would be a much better place.
It's something we know to do, not something we're all doing sadly, as you have pointed out.