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.
Food for thought: "I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about ...
Something inspirational: “Anyone can learn to fight. Hardly anyone learns to think.” TAMSYN MUIR, Gideon the Ninth Muir's quote reminds us that fighting is not just about physical strength; it can mean arguing, resisting ...
Food for thought: “All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you.” OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, Parable of the Sower This quote reminds us that everything we do has an impact, and every experience changes ...
I've always tried to be nice to people but they haven't always returned the favour. I have tried very hard not to be resentful, but it isn't always that easy.
You have helped remind me of how important it is, considering how nice of a person you have always been to me. I have come to realize now that I'm actually free to travel again; that I really should get around to thanking you in person.
Thanks Randy. Yes, the world is rather changed, particularly since Covid. What you're seeing or experiencing has become the norm, but we can still pull it back, we can still all change.
It is exactly because we are in these times that we need kindness. Continue to be who you are, also being kind.
I've always tried to be nice to people but they haven't always returned the favour. I have tried very hard not to be resentful, but it isn't always that easy.
You have helped remind me of how important it is, considering how nice of a person you have always been to me. I have come to realize now that I'm actually free to travel again; that I really should get around to thanking you in person.
I hope you're doing well.
Thanks Randy. Yes, the world is rather changed, particularly since Covid. What you're seeing or experiencing has become the norm, but we can still pull it back, we can still all change.
It is exactly because we are in these times that we need kindness. Continue to be who you are, also being kind.