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 ...
Agreed. All change is daunting, but the thought of change is more daunting than change itself.
We would rather talk ourselves out of something to avoid change than work through and deal with change. And whilst that may be easier initially, it's much harder in the longer term.
Acknowledging and understanding the need for change sounds simple enough, but it is a huge step and the most important.
The reality of the situation can then follow as a significant second step.
Agreed. All change is daunting, but the thought of change is more daunting than change itself.
We would rather talk ourselves out of something to avoid change than work through and deal with change. And whilst that may be easier initially, it's much harder in the longer term.