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. I agree, we often feel pain before we feel better, but I also think sometimes it depends on the relationship. Not all relationships are equal, satisfying or easy to navigate.
I do think it important others learn to participate in their own relationship, rather than prod their lives into another person's relationship.
Sometimes you have to feel pain before you feel better, relationships are often that way. I'm experiencing that reality as I write.
I couldn't agree more about prodding, it's like being ambushed or something.
Thanks Tim. I agree, we often feel pain before we feel better, but I also think sometimes it depends on the relationship. Not all relationships are equal, satisfying or easy to navigate.
I do think it important others learn to participate in their own relationship, rather than prod their lives into another person's relationship.