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: "I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about ...
Something inspirational: “Anyone can learn to fight. Hardly anyone learns to think.” TAMSYN MUIR, Gideon the Ninth Muir's quote reminds us that fighting is not just about physical strength; it can mean arguing, resisting ...
Food for thought: “All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you.” OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, Parable of the Sower This quote reminds us that everything we do has an impact, and every experience changes ...
Thanks. Yes, there is absolutely an element of truth in what you say Tim, but there is also another food for thought also. When you replace 'envy' with 'jealousy' you come out with an altogether different interpretation.
We can envy someone and be pleased for them, whilst keeping our own thoughts grounded on our own accomplishments, but jealousy can make us feel resentful, and that can be dangerous.
I agree that envy is more like admiration, but I also think it very much depends on the person. You care about people Tim, but someone else who feels envious, may feel jealous.
Not everyone is happy for us when we meet with success, particularly if that other person has failed to meet success for themselves.
I think it's quite natural to envy people when you're young, being that you're under so much pressure to evolve.
But as an adult envy is more like admiration, at least that's true for me.
Thanks. Yes, there is absolutely an element of truth in what you say Tim, but there is also another food for thought also. When you replace 'envy' with 'jealousy' you come out with an altogether different interpretation.
We can envy someone and be pleased for them, whilst keeping our own thoughts grounded on our own accomplishments, but jealousy can make us feel resentful, and that can be dangerous.
I agree that envy is more like admiration, but I also think it very much depends on the person. You care about people Tim, but someone else who feels envious, may feel jealous.
Not everyone is happy for us when we meet with success, particularly if that other person has failed to meet success for themselves.