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 ...
I like this analogy of waves which I interpret as life's challenges.
I assert that life's challenges are unpredictable and inevitable, we can't stop the waves; but we can certainly surf within the confines our circumstance's and ride those waves with confidence, determination and faith.
It's like fate, things will happen that we can't stop but we can learn to deal with them.
Thanks Lisa. I agree.
I like this analogy of waves which I interpret as life's challenges.
I assert that life's challenges are unpredictable and inevitable, we can't stop the waves; but we can certainly surf within the confines our circumstance's and ride those waves with confidence, determination and faith.
Thanks Tim. You're absolutely right and I agree. There is nothing more that I need to add.
I do like that quote and the sooner we learn to surf the better.
Thanks and I agree.