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.
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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 ...
Thanks Tim. I think you're right and agree with you, we can learn a lot from our enemies; but given our circumstances sometimes, we're often left with no choice but to navigate around them.
Besides being a huge Niki Lauda fan, I think this was an excellent quote. He spoke from experience because he learned a lot about himself, while dealing with an enemy.
He learned how to be a better racer from heavy competition with an enemy. But, sometimes to a fault because he almost died trying to beat his enemy in a race.
That goes to show that a little friendly competition is good, as long as you don't let it consume your life and possibly destroy yourself.
Thanks Maria. From what you say Maria, a little friendly competition is good, but that's where the similarities end!
I would say that when healthy competition begins to consume our life and sets out to destroy us, that's when we need to take stock so that we bring ourselves back into line.
As Niki Lauda's near death experience has shown, no enemy is really worth that.
Very true. A fool can't learn anything from anyone and there is a lot to be learned from enemies.
Thank you. Ditto on your thoughts. I agree.
Absolutely right! I've learned big lessons from my enemies, especially how to navigate around them.
Thanks Tim. I think you're right and agree with you, we can learn a lot from our enemies; but given our circumstances sometimes, we're often left with no choice but to navigate around them.
Very true.
Thanks Lisa. Yes I think it's very true too.
Besides being a huge Niki Lauda fan, I think this was an excellent quote. He spoke from experience because he learned a lot about himself, while dealing with an enemy.
He learned how to be a better racer from heavy competition with an enemy. But, sometimes to a fault because he almost died trying to beat his enemy in a race.
That goes to show that a little friendly competition is good, as long as you don't let it consume your life and possibly destroy yourself.
Thanks Maria. From what you say Maria, a little friendly competition is good, but that's where the similarities end!
I would say that when healthy competition begins to consume our life and sets out to destroy us, that's when we need to take stock so that we bring ourselves back into line.
As Niki Lauda's near death experience has shown, no enemy is really worth that.