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 ...
This is so true. We adapt from the moment we're born and throughout life, but when it comes to changing we're not so quick to do it. I find difficulty with change myself. I'm a little OCD.
I have things arranged (especially in my kitchen) the way I want them. I can find things easily, but if someone comes in and tries to change my messy organization I buck. You don't mess with the way I have things organized.
I have certain ways I raise my child. I find it hard to change even that. He goes to bed at a certain time and gets up at a certain time. I puree all his food and I even have a certain way I puree it.
I think we have problems with change cause we're comfortable with how things are done now, the familiar.
Thanks Lisa. I think the quote is also so true. I believe we adapt, but not necessarily out of choice. If we didn't adapt we'd struggle with 'life.'
Change is moving from one scenario into another and that is so much more 'difficult.' As you point out, the things we find familiar are the things we consciously choose not to change and that's not always a bad thing.
Change is good for us, it shows we're moving forward with our lives and that we've grown emotionally, ready to take on new challenges.
This is so true. We adapt from the moment we're born and throughout life, but when it comes to changing we're not so quick to do it. I find difficulty with change myself. I'm a little OCD.
I have things arranged (especially in my kitchen) the way I want them. I can find things easily, but if someone comes in and tries to change my messy organization I buck. You don't mess with the way I have things organized.
I have certain ways I raise my child. I find it hard to change even that. He goes to bed at a certain time and gets up at a certain time. I puree all his food and I even have a certain way I puree it.
I think we have problems with change cause we're comfortable with how things are done now, the familiar.
Thanks Lisa. I think the quote is also so true. I believe we adapt, but not necessarily out of choice. If we didn't adapt we'd struggle with 'life.'
Change is moving from one scenario into another and that is so much more 'difficult.' As you point out, the things we find familiar are the things we consciously choose not to change and that's not always a bad thing.
Change is good for us, it shows we're moving forward with our lives and that we've grown emotionally, ready to take on new challenges.