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 ...
This is a perfect reminder for everyone to practice this! It's so easy to get caught up in this world's craziness and wanting to 'fit in' and keep up with everyone else, we lose ourselves without knowing it.
It certainly doesn't help when we're living in a society where we're told what to do, what's appropriate and what's not, how to think and feel and my absolute favorite, how to raise our children! No one child is the same.
This is a perfect reminder for everyone to practice this! It's so easy to get caught up in this world's craziness and wanting to 'fit in' and keep up with everyone else, we lose ourselves without knowing it.
It certainly doesn't help when we're living in a society where we're told what to do, what's appropriate and what's not, how to think and feel and my absolute favorite, how to raise our children! No one child is the same.
Thanks Bonnie. Yes, absolutely right and I couldn't agree more.
Living a lie, you begin to think that everyone is fooled, but the only fool is the person lying.
But you appease people because you're trying to be a good person, in a world that doesn't really care or understand.
It's a shame others choose not to see others as the good person. I think the world would care and understand.
It's people who choose not to care or understand but that depends on where they are emotionally.
I agree also. A good reminder you don't have to fit the mold set by others. Knowing and being yourself is important.
Thanks LeAnna. Yes, knowing ourselves allows us to be comfortable in our own skin and that can help determine our success.
I know from personal experience how damaging trying to please can be. It is a damaging spiral on the road the nowhere.
I eventually took the right turn and found the way back to myself, but it's been with a heavy toll.
You got back that's what counts. It is often only when our circumstances change that we can change course.