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 ...
This quote should end halfway. We should all strive to improve and by definition that means change. Perfection on the other hand, doesn't exist, so for me it is enough that we try to improve ourselves.
Thanks, yes in my vocabulary, there is no such word as 'perfect' even though the word clearly exists!
Even if we had to change often to get things to be perfect, I'm not sure we'd ever achieve perfection. I think we rely too much on trying to reach perfection instead of being just good enough.
I do believe and agree with you that we should strive to improve to change where it's necessary.
I must have been made imperfect for a specific reason, since imperfection is beautiful beyond anything I can imagine. It's our thirst to be more than anyone that makes us think we're beyond improvement.
And I think change is more about adjusting to seasons and elevating spiritually, as oppose to assimilating or changing who we are.
Thanks Tim. Yes I'm not actually sure why we think we have to be, like we have something to prove.
I totally agree with you about change. Changing through spiritual elevation is generally accepted as being part of the Universal change and that will always work and needs to happen.
To change who we are serves no real purpose, because it's something we have to come to maintain and that's not easy, particularly if we've changed for the worst, just to be able to fit in.
This quote should end halfway. We should all strive to improve and by definition that means change. Perfection on the other hand, doesn't exist, so for me it is enough that we try to improve ourselves.
Thanks, yes in my vocabulary, there is no such word as 'perfect' even though the word clearly exists!
Even if we had to change often to get things to be perfect, I'm not sure we'd ever achieve perfection. I think we rely too much on trying to reach perfection instead of being just good enough.
I do believe and agree with you that we should strive to improve to change where it's necessary.
I must have been made imperfect for a specific reason, since imperfection is beautiful beyond anything I can imagine. It's our thirst to be more than anyone that makes us think we're beyond improvement.
And I think change is more about adjusting to seasons and elevating spiritually, as oppose to assimilating or changing who we are.
Thanks Tim. Yes I'm not actually sure why we think we have to be, like we have something to prove.
I totally agree with you about change. Changing through spiritual elevation is generally accepted as being part of the Universal change and that will always work and needs to happen.
To change who we are serves no real purpose, because it's something we have to come to maintain and that's not easy, particularly if we've changed for the worst, just to be able to fit in.