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: “Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.” DORIS LESSING Thinking for yourself means more than having your own opinions. It means owning your words, your choices, and ...
Something inspirational: "We are not what happened to us. We are what we choose to become.” JAMES HOLLIS "I am drawn to James Hollis's words: 'We are not what happened to us. We are what we choose ...
Something inspirational: "Healing begins when we can hold our own experience with compassion." TARA BRACH Brach's quote reminds us that healing begins when we meet our pain with kindness instead of judgement ...
Clearly our most courageous battles are with that voice inside our heads, the voice that makes us concentrate solely on sanity, purpose will instinctively follow.
Our greatest heights can only be attained after that battle is won, in my opinion.
Thanks Tim. Yes, the voice inside our head is the most courageous and at times can be the most difficult. Even more difficult if you're dealing with anxiety or depression.
To contain what's being said in those circumstances is the most courageous. We must work on being kind to ourselves and accept there will be times, when our inward thoughts don't match those of our outward thoughts.
Clearly our most courageous battles are with that voice inside our heads, the voice that makes us concentrate solely on sanity, purpose will instinctively follow.
Our greatest heights can only be attained after that battle is won, in my opinion.
Thanks Tim. Yes, the voice inside our head is the most courageous and at times can be the most difficult. Even more difficult if you're dealing with anxiety or depression.
To contain what's being said in those circumstances is the most courageous. We must work on being kind to ourselves and accept there will be times, when our inward thoughts don't match those of our outward thoughts.
That has always been my biggest struggle.