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: "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 ...
Food for thought: “All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you.” OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, Parable of the Sower This quote reminds us that everything we do has an impact, and every experience changes ...
Awww thanks Tim. Yes, what started out as something for me, is something for others too. It's an achievement for me of course and a sacrifice, particularly as I continue to add a blog each and every day. I feel I am being completely selfless.
I also think it depends on what we're doing and how much we rub other people's faces in what we do. There are others who like others to notice what they do.
Instead of joining the norm, some folks would rather achieve something exceptional, like the CP Diary; there's nothing selfish about that.
Awww thanks Tim. Yes, what started out as something for me, is something for others too. It's an achievement for me of course and a sacrifice, particularly as I continue to add a blog each and every day. I feel I am being completely selfless.
I also think it depends on what we're doing and how much we rub other people's faces in what we do. There are others who like others to notice what they do.