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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I have to be able to trust someone to have any relationship with them. Once I've lost that trust I can't have a meaningful relationship with that person.
This is especially important with family and spouses I think. I do believe in redemption, but it will take a lot to reach that level.
Ditto. I agree, although sometimes it's helpful to look at the bigger picture of what prompted someone to break that trust in the relationship in the first place.
It helps us understand more of what the other person goes through. Sometimes situations aren't so clear cut or black and white.
Thanks Randy. Trust is what holds the glue together in any relationship.
Unfortunately once that trust is gone it doesn't just leave a vacuum but is often replaced with mistrust, which is why in my view it's important if possible to see where the breakdown of trust arose and what can be done about it.
This is so true! Trust is very important to me.
I have to be able to trust someone to have any relationship with them. Once I've lost that trust I can't have a meaningful relationship with that person.
This is especially important with family and spouses I think. I do believe in redemption, but it will take a lot to reach that level.
Ditto. I agree, although sometimes it's helpful to look at the bigger picture of what prompted someone to break that trust in the relationship in the first place.
It helps us understand more of what the other person goes through. Sometimes situations aren't so clear cut or black and white.
Quite true. Without trust there is nothing left of a relationship.
Thanks Randy. Trust is what holds the glue together in any relationship.
Unfortunately once that trust is gone it doesn't just leave a vacuum but is often replaced with mistrust, which is why in my view it's important if possible to see where the breakdown of trust arose and what can be done about it.