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 ...
I've spent most of my life waiting for better days ahead while wasting so much time without really enjoying my life!
I haven't really enjoyed it since I was 3 years old, after almost dying from pneumonia and being very unhappy that I woke up. People probably don't believe this but they haven't been in my head and suffered as I have.
I'm just trying to make the best of it now so that I don't waste what time I have left!
We all struggle differently of course. What you've had to deal with isn't what someone else has had to deal with, so they cannot possibly know.
It's easy to sit back and wait for the tide to turn on our stress; we'll be waiting a long while for that to happen. I do believe we are instrumental in how we view and live our life. We cannot change our life or our experiences but we can move forward and change our lives in some way.
I feel we owe it to ourselves to try. It doesn't take anything away in terms of those bad experiences, but it means we're back in the driving seat on how we live our life.
This is a good quote; we must enjoy today because tomorrow is never guaranteed.
Each day is like a chance at a fresh start. If we have a bad day it can always turn around. That's the beauty of it; we just never know what the day holds for us.
I couldn't agree more. Life is for today not tomorrow, especially as we have no idea what tomorrow may bring.
Thanks. I agree, absolutely!
I've spent most of my life waiting for better days ahead while wasting so much time without really enjoying my life!
I haven't really enjoyed it since I was 3 years old, after almost dying from pneumonia and being very unhappy that I woke up. People probably don't believe this but they haven't been in my head and suffered as I have.
I'm just trying to make the best of it now so that I don't waste what time I have left!
We all struggle differently of course. What you've had to deal with isn't what someone else has had to deal with, so they cannot possibly know.
It's easy to sit back and wait for the tide to turn on our stress; we'll be waiting a long while for that to happen. I do believe we are instrumental in how we view and live our life. We cannot change our life or our experiences but we can move forward and change our lives in some way.
I feel we owe it to ourselves to try. It doesn't take anything away in terms of those bad experiences, but it means we're back in the driving seat on how we live our life.
This is a very powerful quote. Life is way too short to wait for tomorrow to live.
I agree, absolutely. Thanks Tim.
That's what my mom used to tell me. It's so true. The days fly by now as it is; why wish them away faster? We need to enjoy each and everyone.
Find something pleasant in each day.
Agreed. Your mother was one wise lady. Thanks Lisa!
This is a good quote; we must enjoy today because tomorrow is never guaranteed.
Each day is like a chance at a fresh start. If we have a bad day it can always turn around. That's the beauty of it; we just never know what the day holds for us.
Ditto on your thoughts. Thanks Maria.