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 ...
It's such a true quote. You could be wearing Jimmy Choo's or Louboutain's but if you've not done anything noble in them then what are you really accomplishing in life?
I say stay humble and donate to a battered women's shelter or some other cause. You can donate more if you spend less on certain expensive shoes.
Thanks Maria. I suppose to be able to buy a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes one must have accomplished something to be able to afford them, but life isn't about buying the next big thing and paying over the odds for them.
As you rightly point out we need to stay humble and accomplish great things that benefit others who need our help.
Thanks Maria. Absolutely… and I agree. Mother Teresa understood life, understood her journey and through her journey accomplished many noble things, helping other people.
She helped change people's way of thinking and living. A truly inspirational woman.
That made me smile to myself. It's a very simple quote but very true. It's never about the shoes it's about the person wearing them.
Thank you. Exactly! It's a shame there is very little understanding on that and if there is understanding why some people don't work on that.
It's such a true quote. You could be wearing Jimmy Choo's or Louboutain's but if you've not done anything noble in them then what are you really accomplishing in life?
I say stay humble and donate to a battered women's shelter or some other cause. You can donate more if you spend less on certain expensive shoes.
Thanks Maria. I suppose to be able to buy a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes one must have accomplished something to be able to afford them, but life isn't about buying the next big thing and paying over the odds for them.
As you rightly point out we need to stay humble and accomplish great things that benefit others who need our help.
I am sure Mother Teresa's shoes were not fancy, but great indeed, since she accomplished so many noble actions in them.
How we manifest ourselves physically is not as powerful as the actions we accomplish that make a difference in people's lives.
Thanks Maria. Absolutely… and I agree. Mother Teresa understood life, understood her journey and through her journey accomplished many noble things, helping other people.
She helped change people's way of thinking and living. A truly inspirational woman.