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 ...
Knowing what the answer is and grasping the concept are two different things. To really get something, you have to understand and agree or disagree with it.
Thanks Maria. I agree. We first have to grasp a concept in order to know what the answer is. I agree we have to understand something before we can agree or disagree with it.
It's not always easy for us to understand because to do that we have to see the bigger picture. That's what some of us will struggle with.
Great quote. There is a world of difference between the two and it is only the understanding that is important.
Yes of course. Without our understanding we will know very little.
Exactly!
Thanks Lisa!
Knowing what the answer is and grasping the concept are two different things. To really get something, you have to understand and agree or disagree with it.
Thanks Maria. I agree. We first have to grasp a concept in order to know what the answer is. I agree we have to understand something before we can agree or disagree with it.
It's not always easy for us to understand because to do that we have to see the bigger picture. That's what some of us will struggle with.