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 ...
As you continue to show us, the past is there to learn from but not to dictate our presents.
There are valuable lessons from the past and learning from it need not be painful, if we ask the right questions. The learning we take form past experiences, empowers us to change our todays.
Thanks. Yes, we all have valuable lessons to learn from our past experiences, but it doesn't stop there.
Our lives from the minute we're born into our families, are intertwined with other people's lives also. I hate to use Covid-19 as an example, but the virus is very much shining a torch on all of us.
It is asking us to work together for the sake of man-kind and all living creatures, for us to act and be that support.
As you continue to show us, the past is there to learn from but not to dictate our presents.
There are valuable lessons from the past and learning from it need not be painful, if we ask the right questions. The learning we take form past experiences, empowers us to change our todays.
Thanks. Yes, we all have valuable lessons to learn from our past experiences, but it doesn't stop there.
Our lives from the minute we're born into our families, are intertwined with other people's lives also. I hate to use Covid-19 as an example, but the virus is very much shining a torch on all of us.
It is asking us to work together for the sake of man-kind and all living creatures, for us to act and be that support.