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 think our souls are on a fantastic voyage to evolve spiritually. The joy and misery we experience in this life gives us the licence to seek further evolution in the universal process.
Yes, life is short or long depending on what you're dealing with, but there are timeless lessons behind every story.
Indeed, we are not around all that long and have much to learn. Maybe that's why we come back to complete our lessons.
Thank you. Yes I believe it is.
Every day is an opportunity to learn something new. Perhaps something that will make us better people.
Thanks Maria. Yes I couldn't agree more. We can always do better, be better people than we were yesterday.
I think our souls are on a fantastic voyage to evolve spiritually. The joy and misery we experience in this life gives us the licence to seek further evolution in the universal process.
Yes, life is short or long depending on what you're dealing with, but there are timeless lessons behind every story.
Absolutely! I couldn't agree more. Thanks Tim.