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 ...
Boy, wouldn't that be great? Until recently, I never fully acknowledged the fact that I missed out on so much as a child. I didn't have a chance to enjoy being a kid.
My mother struggled with her mental health and as a result, expected me to take care of her which fully explains why I've had such an issue of being a caretaker. I was brainwashed into thinking it was normal, but I finally understand that it wasn't.
My inner child has been itching to get out. I think it's finally time to let him out to play; to be the kid he didn't manage to be!
Thanks Randy. Yes you did and I am sorry you didn't get that. It's never too late to readjust the sails on our childhood, so that we're able to see the negative experiences as positive while acknowledging our experiences.
My experiences weren't positive but I am choosing to take the lessons from those experiences and that makes them positive.
I think that's why the diary is good. We can either fill our cup up and see the good and the lesson we can take from it, or we can continue to see the negative and change very little.
It's important to stand back to look at our negative childhood experiences, and choose to see those as positive, so that we can move on with our lives.
It's not that the issue was positive, but you can either fill your cup up and see the good and the lesson you can take from it, or you can continue to see the negative and change very little.
Boy, wouldn't that be great? Until recently, I never fully acknowledged the fact that I missed out on so much as a child. I didn't have a chance to enjoy being a kid.
My mother struggled with her mental health and as a result, expected me to take care of her which fully explains why I've had such an issue of being a caretaker. I was brainwashed into thinking it was normal, but I finally understand that it wasn't.
My inner child has been itching to get out. I think it's finally time to let him out to play; to be the kid he didn't manage to be!
Thanks Randy. Yes you did and I am sorry you didn't get that. It's never too late to readjust the sails on our childhood, so that we're able to see the negative experiences as positive while acknowledging our experiences.
My experiences weren't positive but I am choosing to take the lessons from those experiences and that makes them positive.
I think that's why the diary is good. We can either fill our cup up and see the good and the lesson we can take from it, or we can continue to see the negative and change very little.
It's important to stand back to look at our negative childhood experiences, and choose to see those as positive, so that we can move on with our lives.
It's not that the issue was positive, but you can either fill your cup up and see the good and the lesson you can take from it, or you can continue to see the negative and change very little.