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 ...
Yes, quite but perhaps the noise is a humdrum, which bounces back off again. We're hearing but we're not really listening, because we've heard it before, countless times.
It depends on who we're listening to and what they've got to say. What's constantly being repeated. There's just no pleasing them. They don't get their lives and sadly, can never be convinced.
I agree. One might as well not speak unless we also listen and listen properly.
Thank. Yes, it would be like having a one sided conversation with yourself. Only listening to yourself.
It's not easy listening to people who have lived on Mars all their lives. You can hear noise but nothing else; thank goodness for that.
Yes, quite but perhaps the noise is a humdrum, which bounces back off again. We're hearing but we're not really listening, because we've heard it before, countless times.
It depends on who we're listening to and what they've got to say. What's constantly being repeated. There's just no pleasing them. They don't get their lives and sadly, can never be convinced.