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 ...
I lost my sight when I was pregnant with Sarah. It can really change your perspective on things. I got my sight back but only in one eye so I'm extra careful with that one. This though is so true.
I've heard the saying that you really don't appreciate what you have until you lose it... and that is so true also.
We should appreciate everything we have especially our sight.
I have a friend who was born blind. I cannot even imagine what that would be like.
She will have no concept of colour because she has not seen it in her whole life. Count your blessings. Sometimes we do not know how lucky we are.
Life could always be worse.
I totally agree with you Randy.
I lost my sight when I was pregnant with Sarah. It can really change your perspective on things. I got my sight back but only in one eye so I'm extra careful with that one. This though is so true.
I've heard the saying that you really don't appreciate what you have until you lose it... and that is so true also.
We should appreciate everything we have especially our sight.
I totally agree with you sentiments Lisa. If need to learn to appreciate even the smallest things. Someone with no site learns all of that.
I completely agree with Lisa and Randy. We take so much of our lives for granted and we should count our blessings every day.
I agree with you, Lisa and Randy.