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 ...
This is absolutely right. Studies have proven that spending money on others reported greater happiness and this pattern was found across all income levels.
Our generosity is 'hard-wired,' and certainly for me giving is way better than receiving.
Thanks. That's great. Not everyone will buy into that philosophy. Just imagine how different the world would be if people gave more than they received.
It's not just a monitory thing, but it's also a fact that money 'can't buy us happiness.' As a child, material wealth didn't appeal to me. It is not how the world functions.
If anything it works the other way. The more we buy, the more we want, the more we have to have.
This is absolutely right. Studies have proven that spending money on others reported greater happiness and this pattern was found across all income levels.
Our generosity is 'hard-wired,' and certainly for me giving is way better than receiving.
Thanks. That's great. Not everyone will buy into that philosophy. Just imagine how different the world would be if people gave more than they received.
It's not just a monitory thing, but it's also a fact that money 'can't buy us happiness.' As a child, material wealth didn't appeal to me. It is not how the world functions.
If anything it works the other way. The more we buy, the more we want, the more we have to have.