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. Yes, very apt, I quite agree. I go back to the pandemic as an example, because it is living proof we know less than we think.
We must listen to those in their chosen field who do know, they know for a reason. A certain few are adding to the dangers by thinking they know and acting on what they think they know and it turns out to be wrong.
Something like a pandemic needs expert advice, foolhardy when governments think they know more than the experts and fail to act on their advice.
This quote actually brought a smile to my face. We don't know how little we know.
Thanks. Yes, very apt, I quite agree. I go back to the pandemic as an example, because it is living proof we know less than we think.
We must listen to those in their chosen field who do know, they know for a reason. A certain few are adding to the dangers by thinking they know and acting on what they think they know and it turns out to be wrong.
Something like a pandemic needs expert advice, foolhardy when governments think they know more than the experts and fail to act on their advice.