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 ...
Good quote. I agree. Many people think that by changing their situation; moving jobs, house or even moving abroad that somehow this will solve all their problems, but it won't unless they change themselves.
True.
Thanks Lisa. Yes, absolutely true!
Good quote. I agree. Many people think that by changing their situation; moving jobs, house or even moving abroad that somehow this will solve all their problems, but it won't unless they change themselves.
After all we take ourselves with us.
Thanks. I agree with you. Very true. We would certainly move but will always take our problems with us.
So true! The core of happiness is loving ourselves first.
Thanks Maria. You're absolutely right and I agree.
It's like what he's said, we can't run away from ourselves. This is a great quote!
I agree we can't. Thanks Maria.
Good quote; it's true, powerful and self explanatory.
Thanks Tim. I think it's a good quote too and yes it is all those things.