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, I believe that too. Although not everyone may feel like that, it's something we can continue to work on.
'People who call us names are the ones who are truly suffering' - that's right. The reality is they may never see or understand they are to blame and may continue to pass the buck.
There is no place for name calling and it can have a long lasting effect on someone's self-confidence, personality and mental wellbeing, especially a child.
Feeling confident and comfortable in your own skin can be difficult enough, with abuse, bullying and toxicity being the recipient of name calling.
After awhile you learn to be comfortable in your skin.
People who call us names are the ones who are truly suffering.
Thanks Tim. Yes, I believe that too. Although not everyone may feel like that, it's something we can continue to work on.
'People who call us names are the ones who are truly suffering' - that's right. The reality is they may never see or understand they are to blame and may continue to pass the buck.
There is no place for name calling and it can have a long lasting effect on someone's self-confidence, personality and mental wellbeing, especially a child.
Feeling confident and comfortable in your own skin can be difficult enough, with abuse, bullying and toxicity being the recipient of name calling.
Thanks. Yes, there is no place for abuse, bullying or toxicity in today's society.
It is important we all do more to support one another. In the last couple of years, times have been even more difficult.