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 ...
If only all teachers took this level of interest in our children's development. I can't remember any of my teachers being in the slightest bit interested in me as an individual.
They were more concerned with 'crowd control' and getting the hour lesson over with as soon as possible.
Thanks. Yes, quite. As a general thought you are absolutely right, although in 2021 education has moved on and teachers are generally more attentive and interested, although on a soulful level unless they understand 'spirituality' I think not.
On a soulful level, this quote resonates with me because it speaks to your soul. Education through the soul isn't something we diligently grasp or understand.
When you intuitively learn, you learn from the soul. That inner voice I often talk about in my blogs is what the author of the quote is referring to.
This is a lovely quote.
If only all teachers took this level of interest in our children's development. I can't remember any of my teachers being in the slightest bit interested in me as an individual.
They were more concerned with 'crowd control' and getting the hour lesson over with as soon as possible.
Thanks. Yes, quite. As a general thought you are absolutely right, although in 2021 education has moved on and teachers are generally more attentive and interested, although on a soulful level unless they understand 'spirituality' I think not.
On a soulful level, this quote resonates with me because it speaks to your soul. Education through the soul isn't something we diligently grasp or understand.
When you intuitively learn, you learn from the soul. That inner voice I often talk about in my blogs is what the author of the quote is referring to.