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: "I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about ...
Something inspirational: “Anyone can learn to fight. Hardly anyone learns to think.” TAMSYN MUIR, Gideon the Ninth Muir's quote reminds us that fighting is not just about physical strength; it can mean arguing, resisting ...
Food for thought: “All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you.” OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, Parable of the Sower This quote reminds us that everything we do has an impact, and every experience changes ...
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!