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 ...
Seeing that Shelock Holmes was an investigator I can see why he said this. Any little minute detail that you may think is insignificant, becomes a big part of the solution to a problem.
That's why investigators dig deep on a case because they know every piece of evidence is crucial. As they say, the devils in the details!
I really appreciate this quote. Imagine coming full circle with your life without experiencing the fullness of it. It's the smaller things that help us confront our own blindness; we begin to see things we never saw before.
The little things were the elements that were missing in my life and I saw that when my mother became ill.
Thanks Tim. It's often only when a loved one becomes ill that we begin to see our own mortality and begin to understand the little things.
Unconsciously we're aware about the little things. It's a shame the majority of us will only come to see this when we are threatened with losing a loved one.
Seeing that Shelock Holmes was an investigator I can see why he said this. Any little minute detail that you may think is insignificant, becomes a big part of the solution to a problem.
That's why investigators dig deep on a case because they know every piece of evidence is crucial. As they say, the devils in the details!
Thanks Maria. Yes, I'm sure that if we applied these principles to every day life and circumstances, we wouldn't go far wrong.
We go wrong because we don't know enough and still think we know.
Most of the time people overlook the beauty and importance of small things. They instead focus on superficial/grandeur stuff.
Small things can give us much joy if only we are humble enough to see them.
Absolutely, I couldn't agree more. Thanks Maria.
I really appreciate this quote. Imagine coming full circle with your life without experiencing the fullness of it. It's the smaller things that help us confront our own blindness; we begin to see things we never saw before.
The little things were the elements that were missing in my life and I saw that when my mother became ill.
Thanks Tim. It's often only when a loved one becomes ill that we begin to see our own mortality and begin to understand the little things.
Unconsciously we're aware about the little things. It's a shame the majority of us will only come to see this when we are threatened with losing a loved one.
Nice quote. It's the little things that make the whole and in that way nothing is little, everything is significant.
Thank you. Yes absolutely!