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: “The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.” IVY BAKER PRIEST An ending can feel like a loss, particularly when we cannot see what lies beyond it ...
Something inspirational: “I’m not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that.” AVA DuVERNAY
Food for thought: “He that flings dirt at another dirties himself most.” THOMAS FULLER This is a good reminder that when we speak badly of others or try to bring someone down, it often says more about us than it does about ...
I guess you can actually look at this in several ways. You can look miniscule, or you can look larger than life, depending on how you share your soul with people who cannot fly.
If you soar heartless you may appear small, especially if you're standing beside me.
This quote gave me my first real smile in quite a while.
Thanks Tim. Yes, the soul has a lot to do with this quote. I love quotes that open our mind to possibilities of personal and emotional growth.
When others emotionally plunge themselves into darkness, they're not capable of being open or receptive to other people, to other people or their success.
They see us how they see themselves. Through our own personal growth we grow, we elevate ourselves. Therefore, with work on ourselves, we must learn to see ourselves positively, so that we raise our own profiles.
This is a great quote and I agree with Tim, you can look at this in many ways.
People who aspire high and reach their goals, seem beyond the reach of people with a narrower vision, in the same way an object appears smaller the further away it is.
People who 'soar' have a different mindset making them stand out from the crowd's mediocre mentality and often seem incomprehensible to the crowd.
Thanks. Yes, I agree. Where you say, 'people who ‘soar’ have a different mindset making them stand out from the crowd’s mediocre mentality and often seem incomprehensible to the crowd - it's no excuse.
I also agree with you that those who soar do have a different mindset, but it's not to say others cannot also. Success is something we can all aspire to. It's open to all of us.
None of us are born knowing. It's how we choose to deal with and come through our difficulties. And we all can. I have proved we can.
I guess you can actually look at this in several ways. You can look miniscule, or you can look larger than life, depending on how you share your soul with people who cannot fly.
If you soar heartless you may appear small, especially if you're standing beside me.
This quote gave me my first real smile in quite a while.
Thanks Tim. Yes, the soul has a lot to do with this quote. I love quotes that open our mind to possibilities of personal and emotional growth.
When others emotionally plunge themselves into darkness, they're not capable of being open or receptive to other people, to other people or their success.
They see us how they see themselves. Through our own personal growth we grow, we elevate ourselves. Therefore, with work on ourselves, we must learn to see ourselves positively, so that we raise our own profiles.
This is a great quote and I agree with Tim, you can look at this in many ways.
People who aspire high and reach their goals, seem beyond the reach of people with a narrower vision, in the same way an object appears smaller the further away it is.
People who 'soar' have a different mindset making them stand out from the crowd's mediocre mentality and often seem incomprehensible to the crowd.
Thanks. Yes, I agree. Where you say, 'people who ‘soar’ have a different mindset making them stand out from the crowd’s mediocre mentality and often seem incomprehensible to the crowd - it's no excuse.
I also agree with you that those who soar do have a different mindset, but it's not to say others cannot also. Success is something we can all aspire to. It's open to all of us.
None of us are born knowing. It's how we choose to deal with and come through our difficulties. And we all can. I have proved we can.