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.
Food for thought: “The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.” IVY BAKER PRIEST An ending can feel like a loss, particularly when we cannot see what lies beyond it ...
Something inspirational: “I’m not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that.” AVA DuVERNAY
Food for thought: “He that flings dirt at another dirties himself most.” THOMAS FULLER This is a good reminder that when we speak badly of others or try to bring someone down, it often says more about us than it does about ...
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.