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 ...
Patience definitely isn't something I have a lot of, seeing as I was raised by parents who expected instant gratification from me, so I thought that was normal.
They didn't teach us a lot of healthy life skills, so it's no wonder that all four siblings ended up with various crutches like drugs and alcohol or toxic relationships.
I try very hard to be patient, but it feels like it's getting harder to do, since much of my life has been wasted waiting for self-confidence to make things happen.
Now my life is moving at warp speed, like it should have been 30 years ago, I'm working on being patient enough to enjoy it for a change.
I have become more patient with age, which I guess is a good thing. Patience and its close cousin, tolerance enables us to take time over making decisions, to analyse situations without rushing.
It's a pause which helps us get our thoughts back in order and it can only be a good thing.
Thank you. Yes, It's a good thing. No doubt for me. If there was more patience and tolerance in the world, just think how much better we and the world would be.
The world will never function at its best without either.
Thanks. Yes, anything that is expected of us if repeated becomes the norm, and therefore feels normal.
Your upbringing back then I feel is not dissimilar to many children of that generation. It's sad of course, but you can change things for yourself now, which is what you're working on.
They say patience is a virtue. No matter what we deal with, having patience can sometimes be the difference between coming through and giving in.
Patience definitely isn't something I have a lot of, seeing as I was raised by parents who expected instant gratification from me, so I thought that was normal.
They didn't teach us a lot of healthy life skills, so it's no wonder that all four siblings ended up with various crutches like drugs and alcohol or toxic relationships.
I try very hard to be patient, but it feels like it's getting harder to do, since much of my life has been wasted waiting for self-confidence to make things happen.
Now my life is moving at warp speed, like it should have been 30 years ago, I'm working on being patient enough to enjoy it for a change.
I have become more patient with age, which I guess is a good thing. Patience and its close cousin, tolerance enables us to take time over making decisions, to analyse situations without rushing.
It's a pause which helps us get our thoughts back in order and it can only be a good thing.
Thank you. Yes, It's a good thing. No doubt for me. If there was more patience and tolerance in the world, just think how much better we and the world would be.
The world will never function at its best without either.
Thanks. Yes, anything that is expected of us if repeated becomes the norm, and therefore feels normal.
Your upbringing back then I feel is not dissimilar to many children of that generation. It's sad of course, but you can change things for yourself now, which is what you're working on.
They say patience is a virtue. No matter what we deal with, having patience can sometimes be the difference between coming through and giving in.