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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Thank you. Yes, it would and given my own circumstances I agree with that. It has taken me 46 years for me to do what I love to do in the shape of my writing and my blog.
But I agree with you that if we're not doing what we love to do, for whatever reason, we must learn to love what we do instead, until such a time we can make new changes.
Now that's freedom, doing what you love every single day of your life. When I get to that bridge I'll feel lighter than I ever have before.
Thanks Tim. I'm routing for you. You're right and I agree.
I do think we can work towards doing what we love, but it means us following our gut and ignoring what others want us to do.
It has taken me 46 years to do what I love, but it has come at a great cost.
It would be nice to love what we do for work, but I guess not many people are able to enjoy that luxury, so we must love everything else that we do.
Thank you. Yes, it would and given my own circumstances I agree with that. It has taken me 46 years for me to do what I love to do in the shape of my writing and my blog.
But I agree with you that if we're not doing what we love to do, for whatever reason, we must learn to love what we do instead, until such a time we can make new changes.