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 ...
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!