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: "If you lose someone, but find yourself, you won." ANTHONY J. JAMES Losing someone doesn’t always mean losing them forever. Sometimes people walk away, sometimes we choose to leave, and ...
Something inspirational: “What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again ...
Food for thought: “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” CARL ROGERS Acceptance doesn't mean we stop growing. It means understanding ourselves without judgement ...
It seems that something awful has established the rules in our society, it has us under some insidious spell. People are just struggling under the strain, I think.
Thanks Tim. Yes, good people do shine and they always will. But others are so wrapped up in themselves, they're not looking at those others.
Ego plays a big part in our lives and this is what you're seeing in government particularly and in society.
Now that's a whole different ballgame, not one that will work for any of us, while they're prisoners to their egotistical selves and they're in charge.
I agree it is a shame but it seems that this is always the case. I remember once reading that tragedy should be used as a source of strength.
It's a shame we can't avoid the tragedy and learn anyway, but that's not what history has taught us.
Thanks. I agree with you. The universe teaches us what we need to know. It's a human failing. History is here to teach us.
Tragedy is also here to teach us what we need to know, but instead we choose not to learn.
It seems that something awful has established the rules in our society, it has us under some insidious spell. People are just struggling under the strain, I think.
But good people do shine, we're just not looking.
Thanks Tim. Yes, good people do shine and they always will. But others are so wrapped up in themselves, they're not looking at those others.
Ego plays a big part in our lives and this is what you're seeing in government particularly and in society.
Now that's a whole different ballgame, not one that will work for any of us, while they're prisoners to their egotistical selves and they're in charge.