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: "The most successful people in life are the ones who ask questions. They're always learning. They're always growing. They're always pushing." ROBERT KIYOSAKI
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 ...
But I'm fidgeting in my seat thinking about the ratifications of saying what I feel in the wrong place and at the wrong time.
Forums like the CP Dairy provide us the opportunity to say what we feel, it's an extension of technology created for that purpose. But I say what I feel when it's to my advantage and I reserve my right to withhold my truthfulness when it's not.
Thanks Tim. Is there ever a wrong time to say what we feel? When we get to that stage where we feel we have to say something, it becomes appropriate and the right time, although when we do say something there are inevitably consequences, when someone doesn't agree!
The CP Diary initially came about so I could use my experiences to understand my life and how to do and get the best from it, because it had always been so negative. It has since become a forum which gives other people the opportunity to say what they feel and love that it does. I hope that it will continue to do so for many years to come.
As individuals we're very much entitled to say what we feel, when we feel... in the same way we're entitled to withhold how we feel.
I agree with this quote. I'd rather be around someone that is real and doesn't lie.
Thanks Lisa!I also agree with this quote. I love its simplicity and truthfulness. We must always be who we are and say what we feel.
It's all we have.
So true! We should be comfortable being ourselves and not be concern of others' opinions.
Absolutely! Thanks Maria.
I really appreciate this quote, it's so true.
But I'm fidgeting in my seat thinking about the ratifications of saying what I feel in the wrong place and at the wrong time.
Forums like the CP Dairy provide us the opportunity to say what we feel, it's an extension of technology created for that purpose. But I say what I feel when it's to my advantage and I reserve my right to withhold my truthfulness when it's not.
Thanks Tim. Is there ever a wrong time to say what we feel? When we get to that stage where we feel we have to say something, it becomes appropriate and the right time, although when we do say something there are inevitably consequences, when someone doesn't agree!
The CP Diary initially came about so I could use my experiences to understand my life and how to do and get the best from it, because it had always been so negative. It has since become a forum which gives other people the opportunity to say what they feel and love that it does. I hope that it will continue to do so for many years to come.
As individuals we're very much entitled to say what we feel, when we feel... in the same way we're entitled to withhold how we feel.