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 ...
The idea of compromising my values is just too ridicules to entertain. But people make the decision to it, perhaps oblivious to the fact that the devil is standing by the door waiting.
The probability of escaping from yourself after that is pretty rare.
Thanks Tim. Yes, there needs to be more people who think as you do.
What we're seeing being played out on the global stage is too ridiculous to think about, or entertain. Yet that is what we have to endure.
I agree with you, no one escapes from themselves, but it doesn't stop people trying. If more of us understood how important it was to live by our values, we would have less stress and a more peaceful existence.
The idea of compromising my values is just too ridicules to entertain. But people make the decision to it, perhaps oblivious to the fact that the devil is standing by the door waiting.
The probability of escaping from yourself after that is pretty rare.
Thanks Tim. Yes, there needs to be more people who think as you do.
What we're seeing being played out on the global stage is too ridiculous to think about, or entertain. Yet that is what we have to endure.
I agree with you, no one escapes from themselves, but it doesn't stop people trying. If more of us understood how important it was to live by our values, we would have less stress and a more peaceful existence.
Great little quote. We should all be open to change, but positive change which doesn't require us to prostitute ourselves in the process.
We must question our motives and make sure our fundamental values of respect and compassion remain intact in any decision.
Agreed. It's sad that through change few will hold on to fundamental values of respect and compassion.
We just have to look out there into the world to see how that has worked out.