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.
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Food for thought: “I just don't know how...to think less. If you know how, then teach me...” AISHAH MADADIY It's human to ruminate. To go over things. To revisit situations, conversations, even the ones that go well. I go over ...
Food for thought: "If you lose someone, but find yourself, you won." ANTHONY J. JAMES Losing someone doesn’t always mean losing them forever. Sometimes people walk away, sometimes we choose to leave, and ...
I completely agree with this quote, but unfortunately far too many people believe all matters are black and white and that has directly led to much of the mess the world is in right now.
There are certainly gray areas and other colors too, but some folks' thinking is like drinking and driving, it's way too dangerous.
It's just a matter of extracting a little information and looking at the bigger picture.
Thanks Tim. Your last paragraph sums up your response in its entirety. You're absolutely right.
Grey areas exist, because we fail to extract the information we need to give us the bigger picture.
I completely agree with this quote, but unfortunately far too many people believe all matters are black and white and that has directly led to much of the mess the world is in right now.
Thank you. Yes, I believe you're right. Sadly, the more people think they're right, the less accountable they will be.
We only have to pick up a newspaper or turn the News on and this is exactly what we have.
Life would be too easy if it was black and white. God added color to keep us marching on. He hates for us to be bored!
Thanks Maria. Yes, life has a knack of doing that!
The sad reality is that where we fail to keep marching forward, because we don't understand the signs, emotionally we will struggle.
It is our understanding of our circumstances that helps the transition as we journey through life.