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 ...
Thanks Tim. Yes, you've had to stand your ground, state your case, protect yourself and that when you're continually having to do it, can leave you numb.
That said, it's changed you as a person, you're more caring towards the right people, you're fair and tough where you have to be. There's nothing wrong with that.
But primarily the human condition is flawed. Acceptance is important in this life, the key is making sure your experiences don't change or harden you. You're lovely as you are.
No matter our experiences, it is important we are still the same people underneath.
Wisdom isn't just acquired by accident. We have to want to see the bigger picture through experiences without preconceived beliefs, but open to endless possibilities while staying true to our convictions.
Thanks, yes you're right. Realistically, how many of us will achieve it and doesn't it also depend on our beliefs?
Religious beliefs don't incorporate the whole. They also don't allow for us to understand our experiences in the whole, or allow for spiritual growth.
As you say, we must see the bigger picture through experiences without preconceived ideas. Religion is associated with the concerns of a life through faith, culture and society.
I spend a lot of time thinking about the blows I've taken in this life and how it has left me numb, yet in some ways muscular.
Because of that I have hindsight and peripheral vision. That only comes from experience, it certainly doesn't come by chance.
Thanks Tim. Yes, you've had to stand your ground, state your case, protect yourself and that when you're continually having to do it, can leave you numb.
That said, it's changed you as a person, you're more caring towards the right people, you're fair and tough where you have to be. There's nothing wrong with that.
But primarily the human condition is flawed. Acceptance is important in this life, the key is making sure your experiences don't change or harden you. You're lovely as you are.
No matter our experiences, it is important we are still the same people underneath.
Wisdom isn't just acquired by accident. We have to want to see the bigger picture through experiences without preconceived beliefs, but open to endless possibilities while staying true to our convictions.
Thanks, yes you're right. Realistically, how many of us will achieve it and doesn't it also depend on our beliefs?
Religious beliefs don't incorporate the whole. They also don't allow for us to understand our experiences in the whole, or allow for spiritual growth.
As you say, we must see the bigger picture through experiences without preconceived ideas. Religion is associated with the concerns of a life through faith, culture and society.