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 ...
Thanks Tim. Sad but true. I believe it's a human failing.
Yes, when it comes to actions which sometimes contradict our beliefs and for whatever reason we simply choose not to, but believe we can and should do better.
I agree with you that we are the best people to help ourselves, but even if we prefer to help others; it's just as important that we allow others to help us also.
Thanks Maria. Yes, we all can, but as you rightly say we all don't.
It's easy for others to take advantage of us; when we go out of our way to be selfless or we aim to pease. Unfortunately, growing up those were very much my own experiences.
I enjoy helping people, always have; but it's interesting how some people's actions contradict their alleged beliefs.
Thanks Tim. Sad but true. I believe it's a human failing.
Yes, when it comes to actions which sometimes contradict our beliefs and for whatever reason we simply choose not to, but believe we can and should do better.
I prefer to help others, than for people to help me and believe we are the best people to help ourselves.
I agree with you that we are the best people to help ourselves, but even if we prefer to help others; it's just as important that we allow others to help us also.
It's a nice quote that reminds us we should all do our part to help others. Selflessness does not always come to everyone.
Some are too helpful so we must be vigilant that someone doesn't take advantage of us.
Thanks Maria. Yes, we all can, but as you rightly say we all don't.
It's easy for others to take advantage of us; when we go out of our way to be selfless or we aim to pease. Unfortunately, growing up those were very much my own experiences.