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 ...
Very true, indeed! The opinion of others doesn't define us. I used to worry what people thought of me and tried to seek their approval. By doing so I wasn't being my true self.
We need to live our life how it feels right to us, not how others expect us to.
I used to think people's opinion of me mattered, but I've learned not to care in the slightest. If they don't like what they get, then that's their problem, not mine.
I've also learned not to form early opinions on others too, as I have found some people have grown on me and are better for the knowing.
If I put something out there that is deemed inappropriate, then it matters to me what that person thinks, particularly if they thought I wasn't a nice person.
As much as this quote says another person's opinion does not define us, I believe we are defined by what we put out there, by its very nature. Another person's opinion of me if they're malicious and set out to belittle me would not define how I am.
In those circumstances and like you say, I have learned not to care.
Very true, indeed! The opinion of others doesn't define us. I used to worry what people thought of me and tried to seek their approval. By doing so I wasn't being my true self.
We need to live our life how it feels right to us, not how others expect us to.
I couldn't agree more. Absolutely! Thanks Maria.
Opinions are funny, sometimes you read someone all wrong and form an incorrect opinion. How unfair it is to form an opinion without all the facts.
We really should take the time to see the whole picture instead.
Yes you're absolutely right. This is exactly what we do. Thanks Maria.
I used to think people's opinion of me mattered, but I've learned not to care in the slightest. If they don't like what they get, then that's their problem, not mine.
I've also learned not to form early opinions on others too, as I have found some people have grown on me and are better for the knowing.
If I put something out there that is deemed inappropriate, then it matters to me what that person thinks, particularly if they thought I wasn't a nice person.
As much as this quote says another person's opinion does not define us, I believe we are defined by what we put out there, by its very nature. Another person's opinion of me if they're malicious and set out to belittle me would not define how I am.
In those circumstances and like you say, I have learned not to care.