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 ...
Thanks Randy. 'I have learned a few things along the way, more than often the hard way.' It really doesn't matter at what point we learn, or how long it takes to learn, as long as we learn without repeating our mistakes.
I also believe it's more important we learn things that will help us incorporate change for new possibilities, and that can't come from the success itself. We learn very little from success, particularly if success comes too easily.
I hope you find a place for yourself where you are able to live comfortably in your own skin.
Exactly, and especially if you learn from failure; that's a much more valuable lesson than success itself.
Thank you. You're right. There is nothing more that I feel I need to add.
Success isn't something I know a whole lot about, but I have had a few brief moments in my life that you could consider successful.
I have learned a few things along the way, usually more than often the hard way, which I am working on trying to change.
I'm not exactly sure of what the end result may be but I would be happy with being able to live a comfortable life and enjoy living in my own skin!
Thanks Randy. 'I have learned a few things along the way, more than often the hard way.' It really doesn't matter at what point we learn, or how long it takes to learn, as long as we learn without repeating our mistakes.
I also believe it's more important we learn things that will help us incorporate change for new possibilities, and that can't come from the success itself. We learn very little from success, particularly if success comes too easily.
I hope you find a place for yourself where you are able to live comfortably in your own skin.
Success is in the eye of the beholder, behind the ovals in our eyes.
We normally learn that along the way too.
Thanks Tim. Yes, we learn a lot from people's eyes, not just the successes.
Our eyes tell a story, but they should also include integrity, honesty and loyalty to name but a few.