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.
Food for thought: "I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about ...
Something inspirational: “Anyone can learn to fight. Hardly anyone learns to think.” TAMSYN MUIR, Gideon the Ninth Muir's quote reminds us that fighting is not just about physical strength; it can mean arguing, resisting ...
Food for thought: “All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you.” OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, Parable of the Sower This quote reminds us that everything we do has an impact, and every experience changes ...
Thanks Tim. Yes, you have highlighted a problem many people are not aware of. But an unkind word, a bad tone, us having to defend ourselves, amounts to abuse.
Abuse literally goes on under our noses, and it's become a way of life. We don't see, or acknowledge that is what we're dealing with.
Perhaps we're scared of the unknown, but whatever our reasoning for staying and putting up with bad behaviour, living with someone who shows no empathy, compassion or tolerance, and who is by all accounts probably a narcissist, can make us ill.
Where you say 'I guess it takes time to see ourselves.' In these circumstances, getting to know ourselves can't come soon enough.
Many people are in abusive relationships but not fully aware of it. I guess it takes time to see ourselves and life as it really is.
So be aware of folks who have a need to treat you badly, as humans and rats are not that far apart.
Thanks Tim. Yes, you have highlighted a problem many people are not aware of. But an unkind word, a bad tone, us having to defend ourselves, amounts to abuse.
Abuse literally goes on under our noses, and it's become a way of life. We don't see, or acknowledge that is what we're dealing with.
Perhaps we're scared of the unknown, but whatever our reasoning for staying and putting up with bad behaviour, living with someone who shows no empathy, compassion or tolerance, and who is by all accounts probably a narcissist, can make us ill.
Where you say 'I guess it takes time to see ourselves.' In these circumstances, getting to know ourselves can't come soon enough.