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 ...
Thanks Tim. Yes, I think we're left with no choice; depending on what we're having to run from. Sometimes there is no way back; we must create a new identity and life for ourselves.
This is very true. Progress by definition is the antithesis of normal. Frank certainly knew all about deviating from the norm.
Thanks. Yes. It doesn't stop us from knowing even if we don't buy into the lifestyle. For some of us, life just gets in the way.
I often deviate from the norm, but that translates into uniqueness. It has also helped me avoid disaster for a very long time.
Thanks Tim. Yes, I think we're left with no choice; depending on what we're having to run from. Sometimes there is no way back; we must create a new identity and life for ourselves.