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 ...
Age has gifted me with a glimpse of how life actually recycles itself. I keep returning again and again to the same circumstances, things I've seen before.
So forethought arrived after I made my way like a blind man.
Yes, quite. Life tends to go like that and I believe that spiritual growth and more insightful behaviour allows us to work with more forethought than afterthought, but that's more difficult to achieve.
It is these that allows us to cross boundaries so that we're more informed on our choices, without stumbling along in the dark.
Hindsight, as the old saying goes is a wonderful thing. Some of us don't even manage that, but we should all aspire to forethought.
When I think about it, there are lots of similar sayings; look before you leap, engage your brain before opening your mouth; they all mean the same thing.
We ought to think about our actions and how they affect people before we carry them out.
Your last paragraph sums up your response nicely and ties in with us 'engaging our brain before opening our mouth.'
Yes if more of us took the time to think before we speak; we'd engage ourselves on much more acceptable levels without others having to deal with things we later go on to regret, if can't admit we were wrong.
Age has gifted me with a glimpse of how life actually recycles itself. I keep returning again and again to the same circumstances, things I've seen before.
So forethought arrived after I made my way like a blind man.
Yes, quite. Life tends to go like that and I believe that spiritual growth and more insightful behaviour allows us to work with more forethought than afterthought, but that's more difficult to achieve.
It is these that allows us to cross boundaries so that we're more informed on our choices, without stumbling along in the dark.
Hindsight, as the old saying goes is a wonderful thing. Some of us don't even manage that, but we should all aspire to forethought.
When I think about it, there are lots of similar sayings; look before you leap, engage your brain before opening your mouth; they all mean the same thing.
We ought to think about our actions and how they affect people before we carry them out.
Your last paragraph sums up your response nicely and ties in with us 'engaging our brain before opening our mouth.'
Yes if more of us took the time to think before we speak; we'd engage ourselves on much more acceptable levels without others having to deal with things we later go on to regret, if can't admit we were wrong.