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 ...
We should all treat others the way we would want to be treated.
If we see ourselves, our humanity, compassion and understanding in others, then we are bound to be more empathetic and understanding of others and that can only be a good thing.
Thanks. Yes, that's right. But how we are is what we will see in others. That's how it usually works.
So if we are compassionate, we're caring, empathetic and have tolerance, we will see those traits in others. If we are the opposite of those things we will see those things in others also.
We should all treat others the way we would want to be treated.
If we see ourselves, our humanity, compassion and understanding in others, then we are bound to be more empathetic and understanding of others and that can only be a good thing.
Thanks. Yes, that's right. But how we are is what we will see in others. That's how it usually works.
So if we are compassionate, we're caring, empathetic and have tolerance, we will see those traits in others. If we are the opposite of those things we will see those things in others also.
We tend to get back what we hand out.