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: “You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.” SYLVESTER STALLONE Sylvester Stallone's quote ...
Food for thought: “The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.” IVY BAKER PRIEST An ending can feel like a loss, particularly when we cannot see what lies beyond it ...
Something inspirational: “I’m not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that.” AVA DuVERNAY
Distrust and doubt are the first lessons you learn when someone is giving you their version of the world. That's why I'm self taught when it comes to history and spirituality.
Perhaps the greatest single achievement in my life was knowing I wasn't hearing the truth when it was told.
Thanks Tim. Yes I couldn't agree more. I believe school should be there for us to make informed choices from our learning; but they teach a certain way and we're told how to learn.
As you say someone's version of how they see the world isn't the way we see the world. I believe spirituality and morality should be part of the school scenario as we learn.
I think it's a shame because we spend a large part of our early years in school.
I agree one hundred percent, it's what is left behind after all is forgotten about school. Too bad it can't be Cliffs Notes and what we forget is garbage we really don't need.
That's about right. We learn nothing in school other than how to survive it; all of our lessons are learned long after we leave.
Thank you. Yes I believe that to be true. With school we're taught to pass exams. Not how to function in our lives, in the working world, or world.
We're also not taught about strength of character or spirituality and how those fit into our lives.
Distrust and doubt are the first lessons you learn when someone is giving you their version of the world. That's why I'm self taught when it comes to history and spirituality.
Perhaps the greatest single achievement in my life was knowing I wasn't hearing the truth when it was told.
Thanks Tim. Yes I couldn't agree more. I believe school should be there for us to make informed choices from our learning; but they teach a certain way and we're told how to learn.
As you say someone's version of how they see the world isn't the way we see the world. I believe spirituality and morality should be part of the school scenario as we learn.
I think it's a shame because we spend a large part of our early years in school.
I agree one hundred percent, it's what is left behind after all is forgotten about school. Too bad it can't be Cliffs Notes and what we forget is garbage we really don't need.
Thanks Maria. Yes I couldn't agree more. We do tend to learn things in school that don't serve a purpose in every day thinking or life.