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 ...
Yes, I believe history has. We can talk ourselves into thinking and believing what we say is right or any circumstances, but that doesn't make us or it right.
It simply continues to make us wrong, no matter how many of us believe or say we're right. Wrong is wrong.
Thanks Tim. Yes, quite. There is definitely that edge to it. People tend to do things for their own selfish gain instead of thinking about and putting themselves in another person's shoes.
Politicians tend to think (or their advisors tend to think) they know what we need, and agree some of their thinking isn't quite on the mark.
History has certainly taught us the truth in this saying and sadly continues to do so.
Yes, I believe history has. We can talk ourselves into thinking and believing what we say is right or any circumstances, but that doesn't make us or it right.
It simply continues to make us wrong, no matter how many of us believe or say we're right. Wrong is wrong.
It's usually the majority that gives us conflict and politics based on selfish ends. Brad is correct, history is evidence of so many wrongs.
People will always deliver poison around the world, but that doesn't mean we have to drink it.
Thanks Tim. Yes, quite. There is definitely that edge to it. People tend to do things for their own selfish gain instead of thinking about and putting themselves in another person's shoes.
Politicians tend to think (or their advisors tend to think) they know what we need, and agree some of their thinking isn't quite on the mark.