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 ...
The best things in life you can give and receive is a piece of your heart wrapped with a smile.
It doesn't take much to make people happy, speak from the heart and be true to yourself and others. Invaluable lessons are always remembered; hopefully you can do the same for others.
I've been touched in both negative and positive ways throughout my life and I remember in heartbreaking detail all of it. I see fingerprints from my experiences as stains and residue from having experienced seasons and chapters successfully, but not unscathed.
At the end of the day, fingerprints are records of facts and events from which we may be judged. This is why I'm fully aware of how I touch others and how I erect my legacy.
Thanks Tim. Ditto on your response. I feel the same way. I would just add though, that where 'fingerprints are records of facts and events from which we may be judged... we are judged by our actions, which the universe will right.
Although the universe isn't there to catch us out, the Universe is there to put right what we do wrong, particularly where we wrong other people.
The best things in life you can give and receive is a piece of your heart wrapped with a smile.
It doesn't take much to make people happy, speak from the heart and be true to yourself and others. Invaluable lessons are always remembered; hopefully you can do the same for others.
I'll leave this response with you. Absolutely spot on. Thanks Maria.
I've been touched in both negative and positive ways throughout my life and I remember in heartbreaking detail all of it. I see fingerprints from my experiences as stains and residue from having experienced seasons and chapters successfully, but not unscathed.
At the end of the day, fingerprints are records of facts and events from which we may be judged. This is why I'm fully aware of how I touch others and how I erect my legacy.
Thanks Tim. Ditto on your response. I feel the same way. I would just add though, that where 'fingerprints are records of facts and events from which we may be judged... we are judged by our actions, which the universe will right.
Although the universe isn't there to catch us out, the Universe is there to put right what we do wrong, particularly where we wrong other people.
If we had this quote in our minds when we speak or when we act, perhaps we would be kinder to people and not be such a selfish race.
After all we should treat others how we would like them to treat us.
I couldn't agree more. There can be no excuse, but we find excuses all the time.