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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We are all dealt a set of cards and if life was a game of poker, I am sure we'd like to change the set, however life is rarely fair and we have to play with whatever set of cards we have and make the most of what we have been dealt with.
As this quote says and as you have done, we need to do what we can, with what we have, where we are in life.
Thanks. Looking back now and where I am, I would still change certain elements, particularly around my autism.
In May 2021, my blog The CP Diary, will be 11 years. I am seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, in terms of understanding my life and my disability.
There's lots I tried to change and failed at, but now fully understand why this road was meant for me. That never changes people's part in what we deal with.
That said, it is important we are able to find clarity and understanding through the cards we are dealt.
We are all dealt a set of cards and if life was a game of poker, I am sure we'd like to change the set, however life is rarely fair and we have to play with whatever set of cards we have and make the most of what we have been dealt with.
As this quote says and as you have done, we need to do what we can, with what we have, where we are in life.
Thanks. Looking back now and where I am, I would still change certain elements, particularly around my autism.
In May 2021, my blog The CP Diary, will be 11 years. I am seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, in terms of understanding my life and my disability.
There's lots I tried to change and failed at, but now fully understand why this road was meant for me. That never changes people's part in what we deal with.
That said, it is important we are able to find clarity and understanding through the cards we are dealt.