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 ...
I guess the sole test for any given writer or artist is sincerity. To put on paper what's on your mind and in your heart; at least you can pretend to be free.
Thanks Tim. Yes, I find writing a cathartic experience and believe the more we write; the more free we can be in our minds, but we have to continue to work at it.
I think a lot of us write so that we can escape from our lives. I write so that I can understand my life. I also believe it depends on what we're writing about.
Unfortunately, writing a book with fictional characters isn't working through our experiences; unless we use those fictional characters to talk about and work through our experiences. That I believe may work.
I like Hemingway's writing. it is brutally honest and direct. He wrote what he saw and what he experienced, without all the gloss and fabrication of so many authors.
I like Hemingway's writing too which is what attracted me to this particular quote. His quote ties in with my writing.
I believe it's important whether we're writing or talking to be open and honest about what we deal with and our experiences. It's how others get to know us and how we get to know other people. You can't put a price on that.
I guess the sole test for any given writer or artist is sincerity. To put on paper what's on your mind and in your heart; at least you can pretend to be free.
Thanks Tim. Yes, I find writing a cathartic experience and believe the more we write; the more free we can be in our minds, but we have to continue to work at it.
I think a lot of us write so that we can escape from our lives. I write so that I can understand my life. I also believe it depends on what we're writing about.
Unfortunately, writing a book with fictional characters isn't working through our experiences; unless we use those fictional characters to talk about and work through our experiences. That I believe may work.
I like Hemingway's writing. it is brutally honest and direct. He wrote what he saw and what he experienced, without all the gloss and fabrication of so many authors.
I like Hemingway's writing too which is what attracted me to this particular quote. His quote ties in with my writing.
I believe it's important whether we're writing or talking to be open and honest about what we deal with and our experiences. It's how others get to know us and how we get to know other people. You can't put a price on that.