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.
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Food for thought: “All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you.” OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, Parable of the Sower This quote reminds us that everything we do has an impact, and every experience changes ...
Something inspirational: "I alone cannot change the world but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples." MOTHER TERESA A poignant quote for today's world, Mother Teresa reminds us that we don't have to ...
The healing process enables you to understand and to process the feelings which are causing pain.
It certainly doesn't seek to deny the trauma existed, but to empower us to find a place for the trauma, so that we can let go and put us back in control of those feelings and emotions.
This is what my website does. I've done the hard work so you don't have to.
It's cathartic process, but it's not a process that happens quickly. It can take weeks, months and years to come fully the process.
Without fully understanding our experiences and/or looking at our experiences objectively, it will be difficult to come through the healing process unscathed.
The healing process enables you to understand and to process the feelings which are causing pain.
It certainly doesn't seek to deny the trauma existed, but to empower us to find a place for the trauma, so that we can let go and put us back in control of those feelings and emotions.
This is what my website does. I've done the hard work so you don't have to.
It's cathartic process, but it's not a process that happens quickly. It can take weeks, months and years to come fully the process.
Without fully understanding our experiences and/or looking at our experiences objectively, it will be difficult to come through the healing process unscathed.