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 ...
Awww thanks Tim. Yes, what started out as something for me, is something for others too. It's an achievement for me of course and a sacrifice, particularly as I continue to add a blog each and every day. I feel I am being completely selfless.
I also think it depends on what we're doing and how much we rub other people's faces in what we do. There are others who like others to notice what they do.
Instead of joining the norm, some folks would rather achieve something exceptional, like the CP Diary; there's nothing selfish about that.
Awww thanks Tim. Yes, what started out as something for me, is something for others too. It's an achievement for me of course and a sacrifice, particularly as I continue to add a blog each and every day. I feel I am being completely selfless.
I also think it depends on what we're doing and how much we rub other people's faces in what we do. There are others who like others to notice what they do.