Something inspirational: "Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms." STERLING K. BROWN
Something inspirational:
"Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms."
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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The ability to sense another person's emotions or to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling is wonderful.
It all starts with appreciating that other person's position and that is all about us; not them.
Thanks, yes it is. But we don't have to deal with something to have empathy. It helps of course, but it's not imperative.
We just have to want to understand and care about people and decide to think about and put others first, when they need us to.
Communities, society and the world needs more of it.