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 ...
My mother has told me this all my life and even though I'm doing better at not dwelling on the past, I still dwell a little and I have also learned from it.
Learned what to do and what not to do... and that it's never too late to do something helpful for yourself like exercise and eat right.
Lisa there will be some part of our past, that we may find more difficult to move on from, but the key as you've said, is to try not to dwell on what's been.
We need to concentrate on what we know we can change, so that we don't continue to make the same mistakes.
My mother has told me this all my life and even though I'm doing better at not dwelling on the past, I still dwell a little and I have also learned from it.
Learned what to do and what not to do... and that it's never too late to do something helpful for yourself like exercise and eat right.
Lisa there will be some part of our past, that we may find more difficult to move on from, but the key as you've said, is to try not to dwell on what's been.
We need to concentrate on what we know we can change, so that we don't continue to make the same mistakes.
Very true.
I agree Randy, very true.
What a good quote. The past should serve us only to show how we can change and improve things.
I know people who live in the past and they are the most negative and depressing people who do themselves and others around them no good at all.
I totally agree with you. Living in the past serves no purpose apart from making those around us depressed and negative. "Very toxic."