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 totally agree with you. Yes family are a major source of stress.
It's a shame really because family should be part of a network of help and support, but my experience is totally opposite. They have and still are far from helpful.
I totally agree with this. Family are a major source of stress.
Everyone has a different opinion and it makes it hard to try to please everyone, so it's better to just try to please yourself and be happy with that.
If you do manage to get along with everyone in your family you will be at peace. I know very few people that have accomplished this. I know I haven't.
I have at least three people that I have quirks with in my large family.
I totally agree with you. Yes family are a major source of stress.
It's a shame really because family should be part of a network of help and support, but my experience is totally opposite. They have and still are far from helpful.
I agree if possible please yourself first. Living with family is not always easy but it can be done.
There are different ways to cope. Find what works for you.
Thanks Randy. I agree.
I agree that would be one way of finding peace.
In my own experience family has been a source of major headache that I am only now after 25 years, beginning to sort out.
For me sorting out family has always been a priority. Finding peace has always been another priority.
I agree that figuring out how to live with family does help us find peace, it's a priority but that it's never as easy as it seems.