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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Food for thought: "If you lose someone, but find yourself, you won." ANTHONY J. JAMES Losing someone doesn’t always mean losing them forever. Sometimes people walk away, sometimes we choose to leave, and ...
I am afraid this is very true. There will always be those who work hard and those who purposely let them.
This is very different from those who want to work but for many reasons are unable to.
Thanks. Yes, your response is spot on. Everyone needs to do their bit. But you're absolutely right.
Well isn't that the conundrum of life? Fair is fair and we must work our share.
Thanks Maria. 'Fair is fair and we must work our share.' You're absolutely right, we must. But we don't.
Sadly, when the going gets tough we bail and others end up doing the work for us.