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 ...
I think we have the ability to manipulate movement and certain events in our lives, but our destiny is pretty much inevitable.
I think it’s reasonable to say that our destiny was probably written before we entered the mothers womb. But I certainly agree with Lisa; we are responsible for ourselves.
This is so true! We create our destiny. Not the stars, other people or things. We are responsible for ourselves.
Absolutely. Thanks Lisa.
I think we have the ability to manipulate movement and certain events in our lives, but our destiny is pretty much inevitable.
I think it’s reasonable to say that our destiny was probably written before we entered the mothers womb. But I certainly agree with Lisa; we are responsible for ourselves.
Thanks Tim. There is nothing more that I need to add. I agree with all of your points and also agree with Lisa that we are responsible for ourselves.
Yes, the buck stops with us, destiny or not.
Thanks. Yes I agree, absolutely!