Something inspirational:

“We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.”

HERMAN MELVILLE

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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4 comments on “Our connecting lives”

  1. This is true. The things we decide to do with our lives affect others in different ways. For example my decision to return to work will affect my new patient's life, my family's life and my employer's lives.

    1. Yes of course. We're also connected in the way we choose to live our lives and how our choices and decisions tie in with the universe and with ourselves.

  2. Every action produces results far greater than we could imagine.

    You're right Ilana, our actions tie in with the universe and ourselves.

    1. Thanks Tim. Like you I believe they do.

      I am sure if the majority of us understood that concept we would learn to do and act differently.

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