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: "If you lose someone, but find yourself, you won." ANTHONY J. JAMES Losing someone doesn’t always mean losing them forever. Sometimes people walk away, sometimes we choose to leave, and ...
Something inspirational: “What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again ...
Food for thought: “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” CARL ROGERS Acceptance doesn't mean we stop growing. It means understanding ourselves without judgement ...
As long as we feel confident to tackle things in our life even with a disability, it may not always be the disability that holds us back, it's the mindset we have because of our disability and the restrictions placed upon us from society as a whole.
As Jesse has proved we can overcome disability with the right attitude and positive input from family.
Very inspirational. We can do anything we want regardless of disability.
Thanks Lisa. Yes Jesse's story is inspirational.
As long as we feel confident to tackle things in our life even with a disability, it may not always be the disability that holds us back, it's the mindset we have because of our disability and the restrictions placed upon us from society as a whole.
As Jesse has proved we can overcome disability with the right attitude and positive input from family.
Very interesting. I'll have to try reading more of it when I get my new glasses!
Thanks for sharing this inspirational story. It just reminds me that anything is possible if you try hard enough!
Thanks Randy. Yes Jesse's story is inspirational. I agree with you that if we try hard enough anything is possible.
Thanks for posting the link. Jesse really is an inspiration.
Jesse's attitude to what he deals with is very inspirational and that makes his story inspirational.
It's not easy living with CP but somehow he makes that easy.