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.
Food for thought: “The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.” IVY BAKER PRIEST An ending can feel like a loss, particularly when we cannot see what lies beyond it ...
Something inspirational: “I’m not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that.” AVA DuVERNAY
Food for thought: “He that flings dirt at another dirties himself most.” THOMAS FULLER This is a good reminder that when we speak badly of others or try to bring someone down, it often says more about us than it does about ...
Thanks Tim. Yes, 'ignorance is contaminating this beautiful earth' - you're right and we must all do better.
Through my disability I still meet with ignorance and discrimination. As a child, there was ignorance around me. We're killing ourselves in the name of ignorance. We should all be looking out for each other.
I go back to empathy, tolerance and compassion, because that is all it would take. It's not to say some of us aren't doing it, but we should all be doing it.
Thanks. Yes, agreed. We absolutely are unique. Sadly, I have been and am still subjected to people's ignorance around my disability. In 57 years it's never been spoken about.
But there is ignorance that is more dangerous than what I have been subjected to. The Coronavirus is testament to that, we must do better, particularly when lives are at risk.
My disability was never a risk, more an inconvenience.
They say freak, I say beautiful.
Ignorance is contaminating this beautiful earth.
Thanks Tim. Yes, 'ignorance is contaminating this beautiful earth' - you're right and we must all do better.
Through my disability I still meet with ignorance and discrimination. As a child, there was ignorance around me. We're killing ourselves in the name of ignorance. We should all be looking out for each other.
I go back to empathy, tolerance and compassion, because that is all it would take. It's not to say some of us aren't doing it, but we should all be doing it.
No such thing as freak, we're all unique. Tim is right and history has taught us there is nothing more dangerous than ignorance.
Thanks. Yes, agreed. We absolutely are unique. Sadly, I have been and am still subjected to people's ignorance around my disability. In 57 years it's never been spoken about.
But there is ignorance that is more dangerous than what I have been subjected to. The Coronavirus is testament to that, we must do better, particularly when lives are at risk.
My disability was never a risk, more an inconvenience.