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 appreciate this quote; I read it over and over again to savor its meaning.
I'm not sure if it's possible to know the universe of our minds and figure out who we really are; but if we learn to love ourselves unconditionally things will fall into place.
Thanks Tim. It's not easy, but I don't thinking it's impossible.
I believe it's easier to understand how our minds work through unconditionally finding acceptance on life with what we deal with; the universe; the process of life and taking responsibility for what we put out there.
It sounds a lot but it's fairly small once we know how to put it all into play. Personally I do believe things do fall into place, but first we have to understand everything there is to know about how to manage our lives... so that we can live our lives successfully.
I believe that loving yourself is a work in progress, something you need to remember all your life. Then you are able to accept anything that comes at you. I really like this quote!
Thanks Maria. I think you're absolutely right, loving yourself is a work in progress. Given what life throws at us sometimes it's not that easy, but certainly something that can be achieved.
When we learn to love ourselves, everything will seem easier and much brighter.
It's not an easy thing to work out because it usually involves our childhood. Unfortunately we tend to pick out all our flaws, rather than pick out all the things we like about ourselves.
I agree with this, especially figuring out who we are.
Thanks Lisa. Absolutely.
I appreciate this quote; I read it over and over again to savor its meaning.
I'm not sure if it's possible to know the universe of our minds and figure out who we really are; but if we learn to love ourselves unconditionally things will fall into place.
Thanks Tim. It's not easy, but I don't thinking it's impossible.
I believe it's easier to understand how our minds work through unconditionally finding acceptance on life with what we deal with; the universe; the process of life and taking responsibility for what we put out there.
It sounds a lot but it's fairly small once we know how to put it all into play. Personally I do believe things do fall into place, but first we have to understand everything there is to know about how to manage our lives... so that we can live our lives successfully.
I believe that loving yourself is a work in progress, something you need to remember all your life. Then you are able to accept anything that comes at you. I really like this quote!
Thanks Maria. I think you're absolutely right, loving yourself is a work in progress. Given what life throws at us sometimes it's not that easy, but certainly something that can be achieved.
When we learn to love ourselves, everything will seem easier and much brighter.
Nice quote, but I wonder how many of us do actually get to work out what we love about ourselves.
It's not an easy thing to work out because it usually involves our childhood. Unfortunately we tend to pick out all our flaws, rather than pick out all the things we like about ourselves.
It's an on-going process through maturity.