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: “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 ...
Something inspirational: "I alone cannot change the world but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples." MOTHER TERESA A poignant quote for today's world, Mother Teresa reminds us that we don't have to ...
The things we see but fail to notice Food for thought: "The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes." ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Yes I agree. It's one of the most important lessons we should all learn. In this country, everyone is divided because they're all under the impression the individual is right and everyone else is wrong.
Nothing is more sad to me, then a nation full of citizens who don't want to understand what unity means or care too.
Thanks Bonnie. You're describing not only a nation but the world over. When I was growing up, 'the customer was always right.' If we had a problem, it was okay for us to say what the problem was and the other person listened.
Now we dare not say what we want or need to say, so a lot of what we want to say we keep to ourselves. The more we feel we are right, the less open we will be to other people's thoughts; the more closed we will be.
No one is always right and those that think they are are, more often than not are wrong. The freedom of having an open mind is liberating.
Thanks. Yes, as you say an open mind is liberating, but it will always allow us to see so much more.
Those with a closed mind will always stay blinkered, but will still insist they're right.
If you think you're always right, then you're making it clear that something is very wrong, somewhere inside.
I know a few people who really need to read this particular quote.
Thanks Tim. Yes, you're absolutely right. It's also telling others, that we're not approachable, or accountable for our words or actions.
It's a very rocky path to go down in the longer term for obvious reasons.
Yes I agree. It's one of the most important lessons we should all learn. In this country, everyone is divided because they're all under the impression the individual is right and everyone else is wrong.
Nothing is more sad to me, then a nation full of citizens who don't want to understand what unity means or care too.
Thanks Bonnie. You're describing not only a nation but the world over. When I was growing up, 'the customer was always right.' If we had a problem, it was okay for us to say what the problem was and the other person listened.
Now we dare not say what we want or need to say, so a lot of what we want to say we keep to ourselves. The more we feel we are right, the less open we will be to other people's thoughts; the more closed we will be.