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: “What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again ...
Food for thought: “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” CARL ROGERS Acceptance doesn't mean we stop growing. It means understanding ourselves without judgement ...
Something inspirational: “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” VIRGINIA WOOLF Life isn't a race. There is no pressure to perform, compare or prove yourself. Just be 'you'. That's it.
I remember a time when I almost ushered in my own ruin because my bravery didn't accompany common sense. But despite my flaws, bravery is still an important trait if we're to survive in this world today.
Thanks Tim. Yes I think you're right. Bravery is one element, as is common sense, we should always apply common sense to any scenario, but I also feel we need confidence too.
It's a combination of factors that must be applied to life. Without confidence, we may struggle to be brave and/or apply common sense. Being brave on its own without the confidence makes being brave even harder to achieve.
I also believe it very much depends on what we're having to be brave for. There are different degrees of bravery.
If regret is the likely outcome, then facing up to an issue must indeed be the solution.
In the past i have certainly made excuses to avoid situations when, with a bit of bravery I could have tackled what I was avoiding. I learned to change that and now tackle what needs me to tackle.
It's all about feeling the fear and doing it anyway and proving to ourselves that we can do the things that worry us.
Thank you. Yes I agree. The apprehension always seems worse than the deed itself. Having myself come through many issues myself I know that to be the case.
I remember a time when I almost ushered in my own ruin because my bravery didn't accompany common sense. But despite my flaws, bravery is still an important trait if we're to survive in this world today.
Thanks Tim. Yes I think you're right. Bravery is one element, as is common sense, we should always apply common sense to any scenario, but I also feel we need confidence too.
It's a combination of factors that must be applied to life. Without confidence, we may struggle to be brave and/or apply common sense. Being brave on its own without the confidence makes being brave even harder to achieve.
I also believe it very much depends on what we're having to be brave for. There are different degrees of bravery.
If regret is the likely outcome, then facing up to an issue must indeed be the solution.
In the past i have certainly made excuses to avoid situations when, with a bit of bravery I could have tackled what I was avoiding. I learned to change that and now tackle what needs me to tackle.
It's all about feeling the fear and doing it anyway and proving to ourselves that we can do the things that worry us.
Thank you. Yes I agree. The apprehension always seems worse than the deed itself. Having myself come through many issues myself I know that to be the case.