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 ...
Yes you've raised a very good point, but the fact that you're aware that you would have been a different person today shows that you know you probably could have done things differently.
I believe there's always time to make changes. It's never too late to change who we are or can be. Thanks Tim.
Very true. I was a much different person then than I am now.
My beliefs are different and my whole self is different. If I could go back I would and know what I know now I would be like I am today.
Thanks Lisa. It's good you know you wouldn't change anything if you went back Lisa.
I have always been open and honest about my life and about myself, so there's not much I would change about myself either if I went back.
I think we can learn a lot by going back, but we tend to shy away partly due to circumstances and partly due to the way we were.
Very true statement.
If I could go back to yesterday, I would have a lot to tell that young man. Perhaps I would be a different person today if I got through to him.
Yes you've raised a very good point, but the fact that you're aware that you would have been a different person today shows that you know you probably could have done things differently.
I believe there's always time to make changes. It's never too late to change who we are or can be. Thanks Tim.
Very true. I guess none of us are the same as we were yesterday.
I agree, but hopefully as the years roll on and we learn and grow, we will change for the better.