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 ...
True seeing as many people have closed minds. They don't seem to understand that people do have to deal with issues that they can't even begin to comprehend.
Anyone who is labeled as 'different' usually gets treated like a circus freak, which is sad considering we supposedly live in a time when people claim to be more open-minded.
I hope things will change in the very near future. It may take doing what I can to help people open their minds more than ever before.
It means you're forward thinking, you're willing to think outside the box and thinking outside the box means you're weighing up your options, preparing to go the extra mile.
It's good to be curious, because it shows you're learning. I would say being 'stubbornly defiant' could work against us, if it's something we always do.
True seeing as many people have closed minds. They don't seem to understand that people do have to deal with issues that they can't even begin to comprehend.
Anyone who is labeled as 'different' usually gets treated like a circus freak, which is sad considering we supposedly live in a time when people claim to be more open-minded.
I hope things will change in the very near future. It may take doing what I can to help people open their minds more than ever before.
Thanks Randy. Yes, people's starting point tends to be negative and in certain cases, closed. But I agree with you.
Society prides itself on being 'open' but I'm not sure how true that is. We must learn to work together more and put our differences aside.
My mind is always open. But it's highly unlikely that I would stretch too far out of my comfort zone, although I'm curious.
Or it could be that I'm just stubbornly defiant.
Thanks Tim. I love that your mind is open.
It means you're forward thinking, you're willing to think outside the box and thinking outside the box means you're weighing up your options, preparing to go the extra mile.
It's good to be curious, because it shows you're learning. I would say being 'stubbornly defiant' could work against us, if it's something we always do.