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: “The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.” IVY BAKER PRIEST An ending can feel like a loss, particularly when we cannot see what lies beyond it ...
Something inspirational: “I’m not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that.” AVA DuVERNAY
Food for thought: “He that flings dirt at another dirties himself most.” THOMAS FULLER This is a good reminder that when we speak badly of others or try to bring someone down, it often says more about us than it does about ...
Thanks. Yes we are and we do. But the problem isn't that we just accumulate the material kind, mentally and emotionally we also accumulate clutter. We take on other people's dogma, whether it's what we intend or not.
But our souls are an imprint of 'us.' Each one different, but I believe that if more of us understood that, our behaviours would change, we would be different people, living different lives.
If we are made up of mind, spirit and soul, the soul is the most important as it is the only part of us which is eternal.
Everything else we accumulate along the way, is at best secondary or worse, just clutter.
Thanks. Yes we are and we do. But the problem isn't that we just accumulate the material kind, mentally and emotionally we also accumulate clutter. We take on other people's dogma, whether it's what we intend or not.
But our souls are an imprint of 'us.' Each one different, but I believe that if more of us understood that, our behaviours would change, we would be different people, living different lives.