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: “The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions: Can we be equitable? Can we be generous? Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer ...
Food for thought: "The most successful people in life are the ones who ask questions. They're always learning. They're always growing. They're always pushing." ROBERT KIYOSAKI
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 ...
It's unconsciousness that prevents people from living their lives as a model for others. What you don't know will hurt you and everybody else sometimes.
The one thing that truly matters is missing far too often; that's respect for ourselves.
Thanks Tim. Yes, respect starts with us, but we don't hold too importance to that. I'm also not sure about our respect for others.
But it works that if we have respect for ourselves, we will have respect for others also. The more we tap into our 'wise mind' the more access we have to our unconscious thinking.
But you're right, we have no access to thoughts that lie within our unconscious and that prevents us from living our lives as a model for others. It is also the reason we emotionally hurt and why we may go on to hurt someone else.
I believe we need to. We all must come together and be better, so that babies not yet born will have a better future.
It's unconsciousness that prevents people from living their lives as a model for others. What you don't know will hurt you and everybody else sometimes.
The one thing that truly matters is missing far too often; that's respect for ourselves.
Thanks Tim. Yes, respect starts with us, but we don't hold too importance to that. I'm also not sure about our respect for others.
But it works that if we have respect for ourselves, we will have respect for others also. The more we tap into our 'wise mind' the more access we have to our unconscious thinking.
But you're right, we have no access to thoughts that lie within our unconscious and that prevents us from living our lives as a model for others. It is also the reason we emotionally hurt and why we may go on to hurt someone else.
I believe we need to. We all must come together and be better, so that babies not yet born will have a better future.