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: “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 ...
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 ...
Yes, unfortunately people far too often only see what they want to see. I grew up in a world where we were forced to see things, that most people probably wouldn't be able to comprehend, which made it even harder to connect with others.
It would be great if I actually felt normal, but the truth is I have to admit that I'm anything but normal!
I think this is known as 'motivated perception', a built in bias if you like, which can warp our sense of what we see and hear and stops us perceiving thing the way they really are.
Yes, unfortunately people far too often only see what they want to see. I grew up in a world where we were forced to see things, that most people probably wouldn't be able to comprehend, which made it even harder to connect with others.
It would be great if I actually felt normal, but the truth is I have to admit that I'm anything but normal!
I get you Randy. Childhood is difficult, even more so when you see things you shouldn't be seeing.
Those things are not always easy to let go of, but with understanding we can sometimes find a place for those things.
Where we can't fully, we can at least come to understand what happened to us was never our fault. That is important.
I think this is known as 'motivated perception', a built in bias if you like, which can warp our sense of what we see and hear and stops us perceiving thing the way they really are.
If we let it that is...
Thanks, you're right. This is where the 'gut' or 'inner knowing' comes in. I don't get dressed without either.