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: “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 ...
Something inspirational: “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” VIRGINIA WOOLF Life isn't a race. There is no pressure to perform, compare or prove yourself. Just be 'you'. That's it.
It would be great if it was just as easy to forget about the hate, as it is to forget about the love. My parents seemed to thrive on feeling the hate, so it's no wonder that I grew accustomed to doing the same thing.
The hardest part seems to be learning how to do things differently. I have been trying to work on changing things for the better.
Thanks Tim. Yes, there is more evil in the world than there is love. But we must always look at the bigger picture of why others may have hate in their hearts, rather than love. The same goes for us too.
And whilst some hate is justified, we must all work on love and do away with hate, because all hate does is bring illness in and war between people and in the world.
It would be great if it was just as easy to forget about the hate, as it is to forget about the love. My parents seemed to thrive on feeling the hate, so it's no wonder that I grew accustomed to doing the same thing.
The hardest part seems to be learning how to do things differently. I have been trying to work on changing things for the better.
Thanks Randy. Yes, we tend to copy what we see and repeat it until we consciously choose to change things.
No matter what your parents tried to do, you're doing better. You're a good guy and you want the best for people.
You are everything your parents weren't.
While hate is clearly an expert in evil, I think love is more powerful at the end of the day; but it's not always neat.
I've done my share of hating in this lifetime.
Thanks Tim. Yes, there is more evil in the world than there is love. But we must always look at the bigger picture of why others may have hate in their hearts, rather than love. The same goes for us too.
And whilst some hate is justified, we must all work on love and do away with hate, because all hate does is bring illness in and war between people and in the world.