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 ...
This quote fits the conversation surrounding Covid-19 and how we got here. When are we going to realize that nature and man are related, forever married?
As human beings our behavior towards our planet cannot be excused.
Thanks Tim. I completely agree. I also think Steve Irwin will be looking down on us in disbelief. When you say, 'as human beings our behaviour towards our planet cannot be excused' - you're right.
We can be forgiven for not understanding the enormity of Covid, but we cannot be forgiven for ignorance, not wanting to know because the virus is inconvenient and doesn't fit in, with how we choose to live life.
If we don't pull back and take control, more people will lose their lives and the virus will start to escalate again. We must be sensible in our choices, pre-existing conditions or not; the virus is capable of claiming lives.
It's well documented that human extinction is not a matter of ‘if,’ but ‘when,' thanks to our own efforts which have led to overpopulation, environmental destruction and climate change; whereas the planet will survive just fine without us.
Tim is right. We need to have a conversation around what kind of society we need, but I suspect that will never take place.
Agreed. Yes, and I agree with both you and Tim. As you rightly say, we're doing this to ourselves.
So, when we take 'selfish' out the equation and replace it for 'selfless' the virus will start to look and feel different. It will also begin to dissipate.
How the pandemic is handled all starts with governments, and they're initially to blame, but individually we also have a role to play in helping reduce the virus.
This quote fits the conversation surrounding Covid-19 and how we got here. When are we going to realize that nature and man are related, forever married?
As human beings our behavior towards our planet cannot be excused.
Thanks Tim. I completely agree. I also think Steve Irwin will be looking down on us in disbelief. When you say, 'as human beings our behaviour towards our planet cannot be excused' - you're right.
We can be forgiven for not understanding the enormity of Covid, but we cannot be forgiven for ignorance, not wanting to know because the virus is inconvenient and doesn't fit in, with how we choose to live life.
If we don't pull back and take control, more people will lose their lives and the virus will start to escalate again. We must be sensible in our choices, pre-existing conditions or not; the virus is capable of claiming lives.
It's well documented that human extinction is not a matter of ‘if,’ but ‘when,' thanks to our own efforts which have led to overpopulation, environmental destruction and climate change; whereas the planet will survive just fine without us.
Tim is right. We need to have a conversation around what kind of society we need, but I suspect that will never take place.
Agreed. Yes, and I agree with both you and Tim. As you rightly say, we're doing this to ourselves.
So, when we take 'selfish' out the equation and replace it for 'selfless' the virus will start to look and feel different. It will also begin to dissipate.
How the pandemic is handled all starts with governments, and they're initially to blame, but individually we also have a role to play in helping reduce the virus.