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 ...
What a lovely quote. Perhaps if people read and educated themselves, there would be just a little less ignorance and prejudice in the world. It's something we must work on.
I think education and being more well-versed and read will go a long way to solving problems in the world and you're right. But as with everything, we have to want to. We are all so far apart it's difficult to know how to incorporate change.
But I do believe one thing. If we were more tolerant, more compassionate, more caring and empathetic, less judgmental and opinionated, we would all do better.
What a lovely quote. Perhaps if people read and educated themselves, there would be just a little less ignorance and prejudice in the world. It's something we must work on.
I think education and being more well-versed and read will go a long way to solving problems in the world and you're right. But as with everything, we have to want to. We are all so far apart it's difficult to know how to incorporate change.
But I do believe one thing. If we were more tolerant, more compassionate, more caring and empathetic, less judgmental and opinionated, we would all do better.