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 ...
I'm sure this will be a very rough time for you, but it sounds like you're doing well to keep going and move beyond it when the time comes.
Hopefully it will be a peaceful event for all concerned. Hang in there and hope we'll have a chance to chat soon.
Thanks Randy for all your support. I will do.
Glad you're going to keep with the diary during this time. It will be a resource of comfort for you. Thinking of you and your family. XX
Thanks Lisa and for all your support. You're right, the diary will be and has been a constant resource of comfort for me.
Hugs and prayers to you and your family at this most difficult time Ilana. Much peace and strength to you as well.
It's good you have this to distract you a bit, emotional things seem to be so draining and this is a way to let some of that out by writing.
You have been a great source of support. Thanks for your lovely comment Maria.