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 like this quote. It suggests that self reflection is important, as it enables us to assess the patterns and activities of our daily lives to see how our actions contribute to our overall well being, success, and happiness or otherwise, and using that to move forward, rather than dwelling on the negative.
I'm sure this would be a lot more productive for me, rather than me get bogged down by morbid reflection and chronic anxiety over things that usually never happen.
It ends up becoming a swirling cesspool of negativity that I have a hard time escaping from, because it's all too familiar to me and what I am used to dealing with.
People always love to look at situations like mine and wonder what the hell is wrong with me when they have no idea of the fact that in my world, it quickly becomes the norm and I forget that there are better ways to live.
I am hoping and praying that once I get used to living on my own and with myself, things will be better.
Thanks Randy. Yes, reflection is definitely worth doing. Over a period of time if you continually use reflection as a healing tool, you will begin to notice just how much lighter things feel.
It has not only given me a life but it has given me understanding on issues I carried the guilty for, then realising none of it was my guilt to carry.
Also, part of what you describe in your first paragraph is me now, but as a child I continually dealt with bad thoughts which I would class as 'morbid reflection' and 'chronic anxiety.'
When I'm dealing with or am in the throws of anxiety, I don't go back to bad thoughts like I used to, but I do have tendency to talk myself into things.
I like this quote. It suggests that self reflection is important, as it enables us to assess the patterns and activities of our daily lives to see how our actions contribute to our overall well being, success, and happiness or otherwise, and using that to move forward, rather than dwelling on the negative.
Yes, self-reflection is massively important because it allows for a bigger, or wider understanding from us and that allows us to think positively.
I'm sure this would be a lot more productive for me, rather than me get bogged down by morbid reflection and chronic anxiety over things that usually never happen.
It ends up becoming a swirling cesspool of negativity that I have a hard time escaping from, because it's all too familiar to me and what I am used to dealing with.
People always love to look at situations like mine and wonder what the hell is wrong with me when they have no idea of the fact that in my world, it quickly becomes the norm and I forget that there are better ways to live.
I am hoping and praying that once I get used to living on my own and with myself, things will be better.
Thanks Randy. Yes, reflection is definitely worth doing. Over a period of time if you continually use reflection as a healing tool, you will begin to notice just how much lighter things feel.
It has not only given me a life but it has given me understanding on issues I carried the guilty for, then realising none of it was my guilt to carry.
Also, part of what you describe in your first paragraph is me now, but as a child I continually dealt with bad thoughts which I would class as 'morbid reflection' and 'chronic anxiety.'
When I'm dealing with or am in the throws of anxiety, I don't go back to bad thoughts like I used to, but I do have tendency to talk myself into things.