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 ...
I agree and believe that you cannot underestimate the importance of friendship in a marriage.
A happy marriage must have a deep friendship at its core, which makes sense, you have your spouse as your favourite person with whom to share your life's experiences.
I agree and believe that you cannot underestimate the importance of friendship in a marriage.
A happy marriage must have a deep friendship at its core, which makes sense, you have your spouse as your favourite person with whom to share your life's experiences.
Thanks. Yes, I agree, but sadly many marriages fall apart because they lack friendship once the physical love dies.
The mental, emotional and spiritual side of any relationship is the most important. Without those, there is nothing to hold the relationship together.
They are the glue that bonds relationships together, over time allowing those bonds to become stronger.
I am not sure how many of us really understand that.