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 ...
Well, I think this is rather a good quote for me as all of my 'plans' when I was younger went straight out of the window and those plans would have made me a very different person to who I am now.
I'm not sure we can become the person we might have been, as we can't turn the clock back, but we can certainly become the best version of who we are now.
Thanks. Yes, I can see why you would think that, but with work on ourselves we can become the person we want to be.
It would be good for our plans to work out and to a certain degree our plans do shape us, but a lot of how we are is down to beliefs, not down to plans.
I agree with you that we can always become a better version of ourselves, if there are things we feel we must do better with.
My disability has shaped the person I have become, not my success. Success is just one element of that, but it's not the whole and as long as we stay grounded, success shouldn't change who we are.
Well, I think this is rather a good quote for me as all of my 'plans' when I was younger went straight out of the window and those plans would have made me a very different person to who I am now.
I'm not sure we can become the person we might have been, as we can't turn the clock back, but we can certainly become the best version of who we are now.
Thanks. Yes, I can see why you would think that, but with work on ourselves we can become the person we want to be.
It would be good for our plans to work out and to a certain degree our plans do shape us, but a lot of how we are is down to beliefs, not down to plans.
I agree with you that we can always become a better version of ourselves, if there are things we feel we must do better with.
My disability has shaped the person I have become, not my success. Success is just one element of that, but it's not the whole and as long as we stay grounded, success shouldn't change who we are.