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.
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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 ...
Something inspirational: "I alone cannot change the world but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples." MOTHER TERESA A poignant quote for today's world, Mother Teresa reminds us that we don't have to ...
Like you Tim, I am also aware of my flaws. With a disability, my flaws are even more apparent, but not everyone thinks they have flaws. Narcissists don't see their flaws.
Flaws are usually someone else's issue. We're human, no one is flawless. The human condition is 'flawed.'
I am not one to think that my flaws is a bad thing, life will eventually show me my fit.
That said, I'm wise enough not to find myself in a trap with people who think they are flawless.
Like you Tim, I am also aware of my flaws. With a disability, my flaws are even more apparent, but not everyone thinks they have flaws. Narcissists don't see their flaws.
Flaws are usually someone else's issue. We're human, no one is flawless. The human condition is 'flawed.'