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 CP has been my cage of sorts. It's a daily struggle to push myself, so I don't remain trapped in it. But because of CP I have a different perspective of life.
It has allowed me not to worry about frivolous things and focus on what's truly important. For example, on the people I care about and to be kind, empathic toward other people. It also taught me to be creative in doing things, when I am not able to do them in the same way like everyone else.
Overall, it has taught me to be appreciative of the simple things in life.
Thanks Maria. I agree and think you're right, having something like Cerebral Palsy helps us to see life through a different coloured lens, so that we focus on what's important.
But I am also aware that having something like Cerebral Palsy can make others bitter that they have something like that to deal with. Like you, I've always had this perspective on life.
Your response and confirmation of how you are re-affirms what I have always thought about me too and now I know.
I think CP has been my cage of sorts. It's a daily struggle to push myself, so I don't remain trapped in it. But because of CP I have a different perspective of life.
It has allowed me not to worry about frivolous things and focus on what's truly important. For example, on the people I care about and to be kind, empathic toward other people. It also taught me to be creative in doing things, when I am not able to do them in the same way like everyone else.
Overall, it has taught me to be appreciative of the simple things in life.
Thanks Maria. I agree and think you're right, having something like Cerebral Palsy helps us to see life through a different coloured lens, so that we focus on what's important.
But I am also aware that having something like Cerebral Palsy can make others bitter that they have something like that to deal with. Like you, I've always had this perspective on life.
Your response and confirmation of how you are re-affirms what I have always thought about me too and now I know.