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 ...
As a parent, it’s tough to watch your child struggle, but as a parent we are here to guide and encourage our children to grow into responsible and happy adults.
A parent's instinct is to remove all obstacles in their way and create the least amount of difficulties in their lives. But we need to remind ourselves that overcoming difficulties is exactly what develops them as individuals.
Yes, I am sure other parents would agree. When I look back at my parenting, it became harder to parent. Where the world is changed, it is becoming harder to know how to support and encourage children to adapt into this new world.
And while we don't necessarily want to mollycoddle, I am sure parents are now feeling the need to want to protect their children even more.
That said, it's not just a parent's job to protect their child. Five days a week children attend school. Governments need to make sure that all children are protected. In a world where there is a contagious virus, children need even more protection, not less.
The government are failing our children. It's not a world I want to recognise.
As a parent, it’s tough to watch your child struggle, but as a parent we are here to guide and encourage our children to grow into responsible and happy adults.
A parent's instinct is to remove all obstacles in their way and create the least amount of difficulties in their lives. But we need to remind ourselves that overcoming difficulties is exactly what develops them as individuals.
We need to encourage that.
Yes, I am sure other parents would agree. When I look back at my parenting, it became harder to parent. Where the world is changed, it is becoming harder to know how to support and encourage children to adapt into this new world.
And while we don't necessarily want to mollycoddle, I am sure parents are now feeling the need to want to protect their children even more.
That said, it's not just a parent's job to protect their child. Five days a week children attend school. Governments need to make sure that all children are protected. In a world where there is a contagious virus, children need even more protection, not less.
The government are failing our children. It's not a world I want to recognise.