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 ...
My aptitude for love and my commitment to life is strictly an extension of my faith and every single day I am physically and psychologically seduced by things that makes me cling to my faith.
But when I'm in distress, I'm fully aware of how fragile my faith can be.
Thanks Tim. Yes it's only when we're faced with difficult circumstances that test our faith, we either cling to our faith or turn our back on it. I have seen both happen.
It's easy to make decisions and then begin to dig doubt our decisions My spiritual beliefs are so strong that I never stop to question myself. My faith in my ability to make a decision through my spiritual belief is never in doubt.
Thanks, yes I couldn't agree more. I think attitude needs to be included in that scenario too, because when someone says something in good faith, they will always do it with the best of intentions, which is why it's said in good faith.
The problem is that the recipient doesn't always take it or see it that way and it's that which causes friction.
My aptitude for love and my commitment to life is strictly an extension of my faith and every single day I am physically and psychologically seduced by things that makes me cling to my faith.
But when I'm in distress, I'm fully aware of how fragile my faith can be.
Thanks Tim. Yes it's only when we're faced with difficult circumstances that test our faith, we either cling to our faith or turn our back on it. I have seen both happen.
It's easy to make decisions and then begin to dig doubt our decisions My spiritual beliefs are so strong that I never stop to question myself. My faith in my ability to make a decision through my spiritual belief is never in doubt.
Exactly what is said in good faith and what is done in good faith should be left there.
Thanks, yes I couldn't agree more. I think attitude needs to be included in that scenario too, because when someone says something in good faith, they will always do it with the best of intentions, which is why it's said in good faith.
The problem is that the recipient doesn't always take it or see it that way and it's that which causes friction.