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 ...
When people realize you're not going to live life their way or be subjected to their way of life, they begin to realize it's no longer business as usual.
So true! When we start living our life according to our own standards, people notice.
Thanks Lisa. They may also not like what they see, particularly if we happen to have lived our lives the way they want us to.
I agree with Lisa and Ilana. People notice and they don't always like the change they see.
Thank you. People always feel more comfortable being in control. They're not comfortable with having to adapt.
People by nature aren't great with change, they like life to run smoothly the way they want.
Brad and Lisa are absolutely right.
When people realize you're not going to live life their way or be subjected to their way of life, they begin to realize it's no longer business as usual.
Thanks Tim. Brand and Lisa are right as are you.
When you take it's no longer business as usual out of the equation, life with that person becomes a little uncertain and that's hard.