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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This quote pretty much sums up everything I believe we all should aim to be, as good a person as possible.
Perfection doesn't exist, but we can all strive to exhibit those essential qualities of kindness, respect and compassion that define us as a race, if we choose to.
Unfortunately many choose not to and that is what makes the human condition 'inevitably tragic.'
I can resonate Tim. It would be lovely for others to tell us we're excellent, but sadly they don't so we must do it for ourselves.
I personally don't believe in perfection. It's not easily achievable. But perhaps we don't need to be. We just need to do and give of our best and know that when it's time we have no regrets.
This quote pretty much sums up everything I believe we all should aim to be, as good a person as possible.
Perfection doesn't exist, but we can all strive to exhibit those essential qualities of kindness, respect and compassion that define us as a race, if we choose to.
Unfortunately many choose not to and that is what makes the human condition 'inevitably tragic.'
Thanks. Yes, I agree. 'Unfortunately many choose not to and that is what makes the human condition, 'inevitably tragic.'
But we can all change and must if we are to change society and our relationships.
It's an opinion on my part that I am an excellent human being, but I'm way far from perfect; I intend to always be straight about that.
I can resonate Tim. It would be lovely for others to tell us we're excellent, but sadly they don't so we must do it for ourselves.
I personally don't believe in perfection. It's not easily achievable. But perhaps we don't need to be. We just need to do and give of our best and know that when it's time we have no regrets.