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 sadly, jealousy is rife, in families; the work place and communities.
I agree with you that we should be happy for others' success, rather than wishing it was us. If we are wishing it is us, then perhaps it's up to us to do something about it, instead of making others feel uncomfortable.
Agreed. Even people who are in need of financial help are scoffed upon. It's absolutely sad and makes no sense.
I've seen people become enemies in the work place, because one makes more money than the other. It should be an inspiration instead, never a competition.
How true is this? Jealousy is one of our many basic failings.
We should just be happy that someone else achieves success rather than wishing it was us and then hating that person for it.
Thanks, yes sadly, jealousy is rife, in families; the work place and communities.
I agree with you that we should be happy for others' success, rather than wishing it was us. If we are wishing it is us, then perhaps it's up to us to do something about it, instead of making others feel uncomfortable.
Agreed. Even people who are in need of financial help are scoffed upon. It's absolutely sad and makes no sense.
I've seen people become enemies in the work place, because one makes more money than the other. It should be an inspiration instead, never a competition.
Thanks Bonnie. Yes, I agree with you.
Why can't we just accept people for who they are? We'd struggle less and be more accepting if we we're able to just let people be. Never a truer word.