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: "I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about ...
Something inspirational: “Anyone can learn to fight. Hardly anyone learns to think.” TAMSYN MUIR, Gideon the Ninth Muir's quote reminds us that fighting is not just about physical strength; it can mean arguing, resisting ...
Food for thought: “All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you.” OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, Parable of the Sower This quote reminds us that everything we do has an impact, and every experience changes ...
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.