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.
Something inspirational: “Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.” DORIS LESSING Thinking for yourself means more than having your own opinions. It means owning your words, your choices, and ...
Something inspirational: "We are not what happened to us. We are what we choose to become.” JAMES HOLLIS "I am drawn to James Hollis's words: 'We are not what happened to us. We are what we choose ...
Something inspirational: "Healing begins when we can hold our own experience with compassion." TARA BRACH Brach's quote reminds us that healing begins when we meet our pain with kindness instead of judgement ...
We don't stay the same and have to rearrange ourselves sometimes, like after a major illness. We may not have the same feelings physically or mentally and have to adjust ourselves; but others learn to adjust with us.
Thanks Lisa. You're absolutely right, illness changes us and we have to re-arrange ourselves of course.
I also agree with your analogy. Mentally and physically we will change, as our feelings change; it would be difficult not to. I would love to think others will adapt and adjust to what we have to deal with, but it's difficult for them too.
Where you may struggle to accept that you have changed, I believe our loved ones will also find it difficult. In effect, they've lost that person too. It would be like going through a bereavement and that's not so simple or easy to do.
But I believe people can come through difficult circumstances together, all the stronger and better for it.
We don't stay the same and have to rearrange ourselves sometimes, like after a major illness. We may not have the same feelings physically or mentally and have to adjust ourselves; but others learn to adjust with us.
Thanks Lisa. You're absolutely right, illness changes us and we have to re-arrange ourselves of course.
I also agree with your analogy. Mentally and physically we will change, as our feelings change; it would be difficult not to. I would love to think others will adapt and adjust to what we have to deal with, but it's difficult for them too.
Where you may struggle to accept that you have changed, I believe our loved ones will also find it difficult. In effect, they've lost that person too. It would be like going through a bereavement and that's not so simple or easy to do.
But I believe people can come through difficult circumstances together, all the stronger and better for it.
I like this quote. If friends don't agree with what you feel you must do, then they really aren't your friends.
Thanks, yes I agree. Friends shouldn't be there to criticise or judge on what we do, but instead must take a supporting role.
I will never suppress my own smile when I evolve. Move on and people will adjust or not.
Thanks Tim. Yes, absolutely.