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 ...
This quote can be applied on how people tend to focus on people's differences and make judgments on them. They might miss out on getting to know a great individual because of this.
We all have our own defects; it's part of being human.
I suppose I'm lucky in a way, because I know I'm not perfect because I was born with Cerebral Palsy and that's helped me see that I'm not and I'm okay with it.
What is perfect anyway? How does one define being perfect? Even if we could be perfect, we'd spend too much time trying to be perfect and would eventually become disillusioned.
I believe the human condition is completely flawed, but there are those who believe they're perfect.
Chasing perfection means we'll always be behind it. But an artist falls in love with defects and the average perfectionist is rarely in love with anything.
This quote can be applied on how people tend to focus on people's differences and make judgments on them. They might miss out on getting to know a great individual because of this.
We all have our own defects; it's part of being human.
Thanks Maria. Yes, you're absolutely right. I have nothing more that I feel I need to add. Your response says it all.
We are fundamentally defective and that's what makes us, us. So to me if a work of art has defects that's a good thing.
There is no such thing as perfect after all.
I suppose I'm lucky in a way, because I know I'm not perfect because I was born with Cerebral Palsy and that's helped me see that I'm not and I'm okay with it.
What is perfect anyway? How does one define being perfect? Even if we could be perfect, we'd spend too much time trying to be perfect and would eventually become disillusioned.
I believe the human condition is completely flawed, but there are those who believe they're perfect.
Chasing perfection means we'll always be behind it. But an artist falls in love with defects and the average perfectionist is rarely in love with anything.
Yes, I totally agree. I've nothing more that I need to add. Your response says it all. Thanks Tim.