Something inspirational:

"When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you."

STEPHEN RICHARDS

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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4 comments on “A Stephen Richards quote”

  1. Inner silence is the key to finding peace so we may stay focussed and undisturbed by the madness that surrounds us.

    1. Thanks. Yes, it absolutely is, but who honestly can say they have inner silence? You'd have to live in a monastery and have no contact with the outside world.

      With populism politics now extending the world, Brexit and now the coronavirus, I do feel it is difficult to reach that inner silence you talk about.

  2. Connecting to the silence is exactly how I survive the screaming and scheming that often creates a skewed reality for me.

    So after I write these words, I'm returning to the silence, so please excuse me.

    1. Thanks Tim. Absolutely, yes I feel the same way. It is the only way we can make sense of the screaming and scheming.

      But even when we do make sense of it, it is important we move away. It is one of the reasons I took to writing in the first place.

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