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: “What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again ...
Food for thought: “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” CARL ROGERS Acceptance doesn't mean we stop growing. It means understanding ourselves without judgement ...
Something inspirational: “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” VIRGINIA WOOLF Life isn't a race. There is no pressure to perform, compare or prove yourself. Just be 'you'. That's it.
Great quote. I guess if we come full circle to where we started, we should look again at the course of action you took in the first place and make sure you don't make the same mistake twice!
I'm having difficulty digesting the fact that I've actually come full circle. It feels eerily with a combination of uncertainty and promise. My eagerness to reinvent myself and half a lifetime to do it is a pretty big pill to swallow.
But coming full circle is like being born again, and that might be the best thing that has ever happened to me.
Thanks Tim. There are some circumstances where we definitely come full circle, but when it comes to life itself I'm not sure we do.
When we feel emotionally stuck we can sometimes feel like we haven't moved on, but I believe we move on more than we think we do. The mind has a way of playing tricks with us sometimes.
Coming full circle often means we need to understand we must take a different approach, so that we tackle our circumstances and our lives differently.
Great quote. I guess if we come full circle to where we started, we should look again at the course of action you took in the first place and make sure you don't make the same mistake twice!
There are many lessons learned, when life brings you full circle. It takes a smart mind to realize this.
Many people don't understand that. Hopefully they can look back and see it. It makes you a happier and wiser person.
I agree, thanks Maria. I believe it does.
I'm having difficulty digesting the fact that I've actually come full circle. It feels eerily with a combination of uncertainty and promise. My eagerness to reinvent myself and half a lifetime to do it is a pretty big pill to swallow.
But coming full circle is like being born again, and that might be the best thing that has ever happened to me.
Thanks Tim. There are some circumstances where we definitely come full circle, but when it comes to life itself I'm not sure we do.
When we feel emotionally stuck we can sometimes feel like we haven't moved on, but I believe we move on more than we think we do. The mind has a way of playing tricks with us sometimes.
Coming full circle often means we need to understand we must take a different approach, so that we tackle our circumstances and our lives differently.