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 ...
Thank goodness they usually are a role model. I hope not to be negatively affected by them. If that's the case then I usually weed them out of my life.
Life is too short for negativity. Lead with a positive attitude and people will admire you for it.
Thanks Maria. Yes absolutely. And you're right to weed out those who continually bring negativity into your life.
Negativity sadly serves to make us ill. Long term negativity can interfere with life too. In my personal life, I've come across a few issues with leading positively.
As you say 'others will admire us for it.' Or some may simply switch off and ignore us because they can't bring themselves to admire or work with us. They may also make their issues about us and bring us down with them.
I'd like to think people on the quiet will admire us for being positive. I hope that what we do will inspire them to bring themselves back up.
I would add they are also the people who you believe in too.
Thanks, yes of course. Absolutely. It has to work both ways.
Thank goodness they usually are a role model. I hope not to be negatively affected by them. If that's the case then I usually weed them out of my life.
Life is too short for negativity. Lead with a positive attitude and people will admire you for it.
Thanks Maria. Yes absolutely. And you're right to weed out those who continually bring negativity into your life.
Negativity sadly serves to make us ill. Long term negativity can interfere with life too. In my personal life, I've come across a few issues with leading positively.
As you say 'others will admire us for it.' Or some may simply switch off and ignore us because they can't bring themselves to admire or work with us. They may also make their issues about us and bring us down with them.
I'd like to think people on the quiet will admire us for being positive. I hope that what we do will inspire them to bring themselves back up.
Good on you girl!