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 ...
My mind is definitely in it's own place and something that I have been battling with since I was a small child.
It has been such a nightmare between heaven and hell, where I couldn't always tell the difference. My world has been so small for such a long time and now that I can see how truly big it can be, we're dealing with a pandemic that limits us.
I am hoping and praying that I will be able to get out there and have a chance to enjoy it.
Thanks Randy. Yes, before Covid-19 managing mental health seemed easier. Covid-19 has brought out a lot more of our issues around mental health and I understand the nightmare scenario you describe.
Although my circumstances were slightly different to yours, it is only in these circumstances you realise or connect with your emotional health and your struggles.
I hope it won't be years when our circumstances change.
My mind is definitely in it's own place and something that I have been battling with since I was a small child.
It has been such a nightmare between heaven and hell, where I couldn't always tell the difference. My world has been so small for such a long time and now that I can see how truly big it can be, we're dealing with a pandemic that limits us.
I am hoping and praying that I will be able to get out there and have a chance to enjoy it.
Thanks Randy. Yes, before Covid-19 managing mental health seemed easier. Covid-19 has brought out a lot more of our issues around mental health and I understand the nightmare scenario you describe.
Although my circumstances were slightly different to yours, it is only in these circumstances you realise or connect with your emotional health and your struggles.
I hope it won't be years when our circumstances change.