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 ...
Thank you. We shouldn't want to try anyone's patience and should always respect patience. If the shoe were on the other foot we would expect people to be patient with us.
Although I agree with the wording of the quote, I believe we must all work to help others who don't often get 'what we get.' However long it takes we must be patient.
Thanks Tim. Yes, quite I totally agree, although I believe we need to work on doing the opposite. We need more patience.
We must live and breath oodles of the stuff, primarily because being tolerant makes us nicer people to be around and it's the right thing to do. We never know when we need that to be reciprocated.
I agree, people can only take so much and no matter how patient they are, will eventually let rip. Better to respect patience than to try it.
Thank you. We shouldn't want to try anyone's patience and should always respect patience. If the shoe were on the other foot we would expect people to be patient with us.
Although I agree with the wording of the quote, I believe we must all work to help others who don't often get 'what we get.' However long it takes we must be patient.
Very true quote. Some things will crawl up your skin until it reaches your brain. But you can feel your patience waning before fury gets there though.
Thanks Tim. Yes, quite I totally agree, although I believe we need to work on doing the opposite. We need more patience.
We must live and breath oodles of the stuff, primarily because being tolerant makes us nicer people to be around and it's the right thing to do. We never know when we need that to be reciprocated.