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 love this quote. Over the past year, I have been involved with disability policy work in the U.S. as a self advocate and advocate for others with disabilities. I think it can also apply to other avenues of life as well.
Thanks LeAnna. I think you're absolutely right. The work you do or have done is massively important LeAnna. Disability needs more of a voice. It should lie alongside others, in an able bodied world.
We're being recognised more of course, but disability is still not being recognised enough.
These are good rules to live by, in an increasingly difficult world.
I think so too. Thank you. Yes, in an increasingly difficult world.
I love this quote. Over the past year, I have been involved with disability policy work in the U.S. as a self advocate and advocate for others with disabilities. I think it can also apply to other avenues of life as well.
Thanks LeAnna. I think you're absolutely right. The work you do or have done is massively important LeAnna. Disability needs more of a voice. It should lie alongside others, in an able bodied world.
We're being recognised more of course, but disability is still not being recognised enough.