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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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 ...
I agree with the sentiment but only half agree with this quote.
While we're not here to judge, I do feel we are here to think and with thought comes reason and that is a hugely important aspect of our relationships.
There are two different thought processes going on here. Whilst it's right to have our own thoughts that bring about our own reasoning, it's not right 'to pass judgment through our reasoning,' when someone isn't asking for it.
It's different of course, if someone wants our opinion and allows us to make a judgement based on their thoughts. The rest of the time, we must just listen. Fallings out happen, in some cases for good, when we pass judgments on other people's issues and lives, because we think we can and they come to disagree with our opinions.
I agree with the sentiment but only half agree with this quote.
While we're not here to judge, I do feel we are here to think and with thought comes reason and that is a hugely important aspect of our relationships.
Thank you. I agree with this quote.
There are two different thought processes going on here. Whilst it's right to have our own thoughts that bring about our own reasoning, it's not right 'to pass judgment through our reasoning,' when someone isn't asking for it.
It's different of course, if someone wants our opinion and allows us to make a judgement based on their thoughts. The rest of the time, we must just listen. Fallings out happen, in some cases for good, when we pass judgments on other people's issues and lives, because we think we can and they come to disagree with our opinions.
I think this quote is asking us to thoroughly listen without judgement and without preconceived thoughts.
It absolutely is. Thanks Tim.