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: “I just don't know how...to think less. If you know how, then teach me...” AISHAH MADADIY It's human to ruminate. To go over things. To revisit situations, conversations, even the ones that go well. I go over ...
From your responses Tim, you're articulate, mature and composed. If by baby you mean young enough to soak up all there is to learn and know, then that works too.
Seriously though, we're all ageing, but psychologically it's important we stay young. We age a lot quicker than our physical years when we give up mentally.
One thing is certain, each day we're open to more learning, as long as we're willing to soak up the learning thing.
I completely agree. That’s precisely when we start to learn.
Agreed, absolutely. Yes, another new day brings even more learning.
Sadly, we tend to think learning is for someone else and don't always want to hear what others have to say. Only what we know ourselves.
I'm getting pretty old, but I'm a baby when it comes to all there is to learn.
From your responses Tim, you're articulate, mature and composed. If by baby you mean young enough to soak up all there is to learn and know, then that works too.
Seriously though, we're all ageing, but psychologically it's important we stay young. We age a lot quicker than our physical years when we give up mentally.
One thing is certain, each day we're open to more learning, as long as we're willing to soak up the learning thing.