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 ...
We can be impatient and want things to happen fast. Everything happens in its due time and for a reason.
Thanks Maria. Yes, quite. Emotionally we must be ready to accept that which happens in its rightful and/or due time.
Looking for something that we're not emotionally ready to find, which we're not ready to have or take care of, but still want.
The wisdom in this quote is really extraordinary.
But I think we roam life to learn, although we sometimes stumble into the wrong places at the wrong time, but we learn nevertheless.
Thanks Tim. Yes I couldn't agree more. We certainly do.
What we seek has a habit of finding us, but only when it is the right time.
Thanks, yes always at the right time, never sooner, never later... when it's right. I couldn't agree more.