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.
Something inspirational: “Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.” DORIS LESSING Thinking for yourself means more than having your own opinions. It means owning your words, your choices, and ...
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 ...
Exactly! It would be difficult not to judge people like Rita Ora paying to have a birthday party in London in the middle of a lockdown which is utterly ridiculous.
It's the biggest reason why the virus isn't going away sooner, because people whether they are celebrities or not, are still refusing to do the right thing.
There would be less room for judgments if people seriously did the right thing for themselves and other people. It's stressful for those like myself who already struggle, to sit back and watch people continue to break the rules.
We all need to do more to reduce the virus, so we can get back to our near to normal lives.
Thanks Randy. Yes, if more of us did what was right, there would be less time for anyone to judge.
Given the pandemic we must all do more to support one another and do what's right. Like you, I can also see myself staying home for a good few months, well out of lockdown.
But it isn't just the pandemic. People judge when they think they know, but they can never know what someone feels or thinks, or goes through unless they have 'walked in their shoes.'
The pandemic has shown a side to us, that we knew existed, but didn't know to what extent. It is important we judge less and support more.
We should use this time to reassess and reevaluate where we are, so that we can get through the next few weeks and months of Covid, mentally and emotionally stronger.
This is a great quote. We don't have the right to judge anyone, as it defines you not the other person and also as the quote says we don't know who might be in another life.
Exactly! It would be difficult not to judge people like Rita Ora paying to have a birthday party in London in the middle of a lockdown which is utterly ridiculous.
It's the biggest reason why the virus isn't going away sooner, because people whether they are celebrities or not, are still refusing to do the right thing.
There would be less room for judgments if people seriously did the right thing for themselves and other people. It's stressful for those like myself who already struggle, to sit back and watch people continue to break the rules.
We all need to do more to reduce the virus, so we can get back to our near to normal lives.
Thanks Randy. Yes, if more of us did what was right, there would be less time for anyone to judge.
Given the pandemic we must all do more to support one another and do what's right. Like you, I can also see myself staying home for a good few months, well out of lockdown.
But it isn't just the pandemic. People judge when they think they know, but they can never know what someone feels or thinks, or goes through unless they have 'walked in their shoes.'
The pandemic has shown a side to us, that we knew existed, but didn't know to what extent. It is important we judge less and support more.
We should use this time to reassess and reevaluate where we are, so that we can get through the next few weeks and months of Covid, mentally and emotionally stronger.
This is a great quote. We don't have the right to judge anyone, as it defines you not the other person and also as the quote says we don't know who might be in another life.
Thanks. Yes, you're right, don't judge and unless we walk a mile in another person's shoes we can and will never know what they really go through.
It's wrong to judge.