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 ...
There's something that needs to be said about people who keep trying to get things done. They aren't afraid to fail, one should try things at least once.
Thanks Maria. Yes, confidence is a big factor here. The more confident you are, the more likely you are to give things a go.
It goes back to our childhoods, to our schooling, to the support mechanisms in place. As the child we don't often get to choose, as the adult we have no choice.
But we can choose to change. Through giving things a go, we can bring about a confidence we didn't think we had.
There's something that needs to be said about people who keep trying to get things done. They aren't afraid to fail, one should try things at least once.
Thanks Maria. Yes, confidence is a big factor here. The more confident you are, the more likely you are to give things a go.
It goes back to our childhoods, to our schooling, to the support mechanisms in place. As the child we don't often get to choose, as the adult we have no choice.
But we can choose to change. Through giving things a go, we can bring about a confidence we didn't think we had.