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. 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.