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 ...
We weren't born in a heaven. Our mission is to reach a heaven when all is said and done; so hell may very well be the birthplace of things as we know it.
Sometimes we have to go through hell to get to reach our goal.
I agree with you that sometimes we may go through what seems like hell to reach our goal and I think that's what the quote is all about. Thanks Lisa.
I like this quote. I reckon that we will all have had our fair share of hell by the time we get to heaven!
Life seems to go like that sometimes. I agree.
Well, I have definitely been through hell, so I would hope I'm working my way up to Heaven!
I hope you are too.
We weren't born in a heaven. Our mission is to reach a heaven when all is said and done; so hell may very well be the birthplace of things as we know it.
Interesting quote.
An interesting reply to an interesting quote. Thanks Tim.