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.
Food for thought: "I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about ...
Something inspirational: “Anyone can learn to fight. Hardly anyone learns to think.” TAMSYN MUIR, Gideon the Ninth Muir's quote reminds us that fighting is not just about physical strength; it can mean arguing, resisting ...
Food for thought: “All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you.” OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, Parable of the Sower This quote reminds us that everything we do has an impact, and every experience changes ...
I remember watching a crime drama on TV years ago and the main character told her colleague she doesn't listen to what suspects tell her, but to what they don't tell her and I guess the same can be said for all of us in our daily lives.
Much can be imparted without speaking, by assessing and making a judgement on the things people don't say.
Thanks, yes so true. It would be like filling in the blanks on the things said that don't go far enough. It's often the things left out that are more important than the things said.
'Reading between the lines' as I call it although it's hard to do, is absolutely necessary.
Thanks Tim. Yes, you're right but unless we're adept at working out what isn't said, those things remain unsaid, hid and buried, unavailable to us.
Perhaps your standoffish ways is more to do with what's been done to you, rather than how you really are. I believe that with the right love and support growing up, you would be less standoffish.
I know that because I was that child. When we learn to nurture and be kind to ourselves we have the capabilities of changing. The CP Diary is testament to my own spiritual and emotional change.
Thanks Bonnie. Yes, the whole communication process is important, but sadly lacking.
I think you're right. The key is paying attention to what's said and can't help but think though, that if we all learned to be open and transparent, listening out for the words that aren't expressed, wouldn't need to happen.
I remember watching a crime drama on TV years ago and the main character told her colleague she doesn't listen to what suspects tell her, but to what they don't tell her and I guess the same can be said for all of us in our daily lives.
Much can be imparted without speaking, by assessing and making a judgement on the things people don't say.
Thanks, yes so true. It would be like filling in the blanks on the things said that don't go far enough. It's often the things left out that are more important than the things said.
'Reading between the lines' as I call it although it's hard to do, is absolutely necessary.
This is so true. What's not said is usually louder than what is said. Even with my standoffish ways, I often receive what I need from nothing.
Thanks Tim. Yes, you're right but unless we're adept at working out what isn't said, those things remain unsaid, hid and buried, unavailable to us.
Perhaps your standoffish ways is more to do with what's been done to you, rather than how you really are. I believe that with the right love and support growing up, you would be less standoffish.
I know that because I was that child. When we learn to nurture and be kind to ourselves we have the capabilities of changing. The CP Diary is testament to my own spiritual and emotional change.
Yes!! And paying attention to what has been said before and what's being said in the present. This is still a working progress for me.
Thanks Bonnie. Yes, the whole communication process is important, but sadly lacking.
I think you're right. The key is paying attention to what's said and can't help but think though, that if we all learned to be open and transparent, listening out for the words that aren't expressed, wouldn't need to happen.