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 ...
Absolutely and that matters. I believe life is about how we live our dream, more than us living our dream.
If we're scared to die, we're scared to live and if we're scared to live, we will do little to fulfil our dreams in perhaps the way we should. Death is part of the living process, not a separate entity and yet we see them as separate.
As each day passes and we move closer to death, we continue to live with unconscious fears around how we will die and that's what stops us from living our lives and fulfilling our dreams.
Aww thanks Tim. You've summed up your response beautifully and I think you're right.
Where we can't find out or work out the answers ourselves, the universe bridges the gap and that takes the stress and questions away from us, which allows us then to concentrate on our dreams and living our lives to the full.
If living our dreams makes us happy then that's all that matters. We all die whether we live our dream or not.
Absolutely and that matters. I believe life is about how we live our dream, more than us living our dream.
If we're scared to die, we're scared to live and if we're scared to live, we will do little to fulfil our dreams in perhaps the way we should. Death is part of the living process, not a separate entity and yet we see them as separate.
As each day passes and we move closer to death, we continue to live with unconscious fears around how we will die and that's what stops us from living our lives and fulfilling our dreams.
I made a decision to receive my messages directly from the Universe, as I couldn't exist without it.
So unless I see the wrong spirits behind me, I'm not afraid to live, die or entertain my dreams.
Aww thanks Tim. You've summed up your response beautifully and I think you're right.
Where we can't find out or work out the answers ourselves, the universe bridges the gap and that takes the stress and questions away from us, which allows us then to concentrate on our dreams and living our lives to the full.