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 ...
This is a great quote. We mustn't concentrate on the past other than to learn from it, and change what we need to, avoid repetition.
The best way to do and understand that, is to look at what can do in the now and to positively focus on that. That's not always easy but with time, and help if we need it that's where we should be.
That's right. If I had have concentrated on the past I would have stayed stuck there. I believe that no matter how bad our past is we should always use it as a stepping stone to change our future.
Yes, it's hard, in certain cases it may seem impossible, but living with hope and believing our lives will change, can bring about a different thinking from us and new possibilities.
It is important we keep an open mind. That is exactly what happened to me. I never gave up hope that one day my time would come.
Thanks Tim. You're right on both counts. Our regrets are there for us to learn so that we don't make the same mistake twice.
The problem some of us have is that we're so annoyed with ourselves because we've made a mistake, we're not willing to accept or acknowledge our mistake and that sets us on a course of making more mistakes.
Instead what we should be doing is look at our mistakes and ask ourselves how we could have done things differently to produce a more successful outcome.
Mistakes are lessons for us to learn. Sadly, we don't learn.
This is a great quote. We mustn't concentrate on the past other than to learn from it, and change what we need to, avoid repetition.
The best way to do and understand that, is to look at what can do in the now and to positively focus on that. That's not always easy but with time, and help if we need it that's where we should be.
That's right. If I had have concentrated on the past I would have stayed stuck there. I believe that no matter how bad our past is we should always use it as a stepping stone to change our future.
Yes, it's hard, in certain cases it may seem impossible, but living with hope and believing our lives will change, can bring about a different thinking from us and new possibilities.
It is important we keep an open mind. That is exactly what happened to me. I never gave up hope that one day my time would come.
My regrets are using me for a good reason, so I feel comfortable even when I'm tormented sometimes.
It means that I can move forward without making the same mistakes, hopefully.
Thanks Tim. You're right on both counts. Our regrets are there for us to learn so that we don't make the same mistake twice.
The problem some of us have is that we're so annoyed with ourselves because we've made a mistake, we're not willing to accept or acknowledge our mistake and that sets us on a course of making more mistakes.
Instead what we should be doing is look at our mistakes and ask ourselves how we could have done things differently to produce a more successful outcome.
Mistakes are lessons for us to learn. Sadly, we don't learn.