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 ...
A loveless relationship is perhaps the saddest predicament to be in, especially if it's permanent. You love me respectfully and fully or you don't love me at all.
People today seem more preoccupied with materialism, a good sex partner or someone to pay their bills, rather than the science of love.
A loveless relationship is perhaps the saddest predicament to be in, especially if it's permanent. You love me respectfully and fully or you don't love me at all.
People today seem more preoccupied with materialism, a good sex partner or someone to pay their bills, rather than the science of love.
Yes I couldn't agree more. I believe the same is true. I also think we tend to settle for less when we think less of ourselves.
For those of us who think very highly of ourselves, we want someone who will meet our exacting standards. A human failing I feel.