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 ...
From your responses Tim, you're articulate, mature and composed. If by baby you mean young enough to soak up all there is to learn and know, then that works too.
Seriously though, we're all ageing, but psychologically it's important we stay young. We age a lot quicker than our physical years when we give up mentally.
One thing is certain, each day we're open to more learning, as long as we're willing to soak up the learning thing.
I completely agree. That’s precisely when we start to learn.
Agreed, absolutely. Yes, another new day brings even more learning.
Sadly, we tend to think learning is for someone else and don't always want to hear what others have to say. Only what we know ourselves.
I'm getting pretty old, but I'm a baby when it comes to all there is to learn.
From your responses Tim, you're articulate, mature and composed. If by baby you mean young enough to soak up all there is to learn and know, then that works too.
Seriously though, we're all ageing, but psychologically it's important we stay young. We age a lot quicker than our physical years when we give up mentally.
One thing is certain, each day we're open to more learning, as long as we're willing to soak up the learning thing.