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 ...
This quote fits the conversation surrounding Covid-19 and how we got here. When are we going to realize that nature and man are related, forever married?
As human beings our behavior towards our planet cannot be excused.
Thanks Tim. I completely agree. I also think Steve Irwin will be looking down on us in disbelief. When you say, 'as human beings our behaviour towards our planet cannot be excused' - you're right.
We can be forgiven for not understanding the enormity of Covid, but we cannot be forgiven for ignorance, not wanting to know because the virus is inconvenient and doesn't fit in, with how we choose to live life.
If we don't pull back and take control, more people will lose their lives and the virus will start to escalate again. We must be sensible in our choices, pre-existing conditions or not; the virus is capable of claiming lives.
It's well documented that human extinction is not a matter of ‘if,’ but ‘when,' thanks to our own efforts which have led to overpopulation, environmental destruction and climate change; whereas the planet will survive just fine without us.
Tim is right. We need to have a conversation around what kind of society we need, but I suspect that will never take place.
Agreed. Yes, and I agree with both you and Tim. As you rightly say, we're doing this to ourselves.
So, when we take 'selfish' out the equation and replace it for 'selfless' the virus will start to look and feel different. It will also begin to dissipate.
How the pandemic is handled all starts with governments, and they're initially to blame, but individually we also have a role to play in helping reduce the virus.
This quote fits the conversation surrounding Covid-19 and how we got here. When are we going to realize that nature and man are related, forever married?
As human beings our behavior towards our planet cannot be excused.
Thanks Tim. I completely agree. I also think Steve Irwin will be looking down on us in disbelief. When you say, 'as human beings our behaviour towards our planet cannot be excused' - you're right.
We can be forgiven for not understanding the enormity of Covid, but we cannot be forgiven for ignorance, not wanting to know because the virus is inconvenient and doesn't fit in, with how we choose to live life.
If we don't pull back and take control, more people will lose their lives and the virus will start to escalate again. We must be sensible in our choices, pre-existing conditions or not; the virus is capable of claiming lives.
It's well documented that human extinction is not a matter of ‘if,’ but ‘when,' thanks to our own efforts which have led to overpopulation, environmental destruction and climate change; whereas the planet will survive just fine without us.
Tim is right. We need to have a conversation around what kind of society we need, but I suspect that will never take place.
Agreed. Yes, and I agree with both you and Tim. As you rightly say, we're doing this to ourselves.
So, when we take 'selfish' out the equation and replace it for 'selfless' the virus will start to look and feel different. It will also begin to dissipate.
How the pandemic is handled all starts with governments, and they're initially to blame, but individually we also have a role to play in helping reduce the virus.