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 ...
Thanks Tim. Yes quotes are always open to interpretation, which is what's so good about them.
I agree with you about reality. Reality is reality whichever way we look at it. I'd personally be more concerned, if the tide were to turn against us. We'd be more concerned about that. Being positive certainly helps.
Indeed they do and usually when we least expect them.
Thanks. Yes, the irony is that we never think the tide will turn, but as you say it always does. Thinking positive helps turn the tide around.
I think tides have more to do with how we view things or how the world appears to us, like the glass half full, half empty analogy.
On the other hand, reality is reality, and you cannot tell a concerned man not to believe his lying eyes when the tide is turning his way.
Thanks Tim. Yes quotes are always open to interpretation, which is what's so good about them.
I agree with you about reality. Reality is reality whichever way we look at it. I'd personally be more concerned, if the tide were to turn against us. We'd be more concerned about that. Being positive certainly helps.