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 ...
It's a shame there is truth in this saying. I gave up putting any importance on success a long time ago. In itself, it does not bring happiness and there are far more important things in life.
Thanks. Yes there are. Success is different for us all. Finding out about my disability is success, I had already reconciled I would never know.
But success is different for all of us. I measure success, not through things, but finding emotional and mental clarity, living my best life and giving back.
Others may think success is monetary, but whatever success is, it is important to remember to be graceful and humble.
Without those attributes to match your success, you can introduce self-destructive impulses.
It's a shame there is truth in this saying. I gave up putting any importance on success a long time ago. In itself, it does not bring happiness and there are far more important things in life.
Thanks. Yes there are. Success is different for us all. Finding out about my disability is success, I had already reconciled I would never know.
But success is different for all of us. I measure success, not through things, but finding emotional and mental clarity, living my best life and giving back.
Others may think success is monetary, but whatever success is, it is important to remember to be graceful and humble.
Without those attributes to match your success, you can introduce self-destructive impulses.