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 ...
Yes, we have to accept things first, like with the 6 step programs for alcohol or drug abuse you have to accept that you have a problem first, before you can truly recover.
Acceptance is something I have a very hard time with when it comes to things I've done in the past! One thing I finally realised is, even though I do have to accept certain things it doesn't mean that I have to like them.
Considering I am actually in a program of recovery, I have been hearing about it for a very long time! I know the biggest problem for people is in accepting something they feel they have to agree with.
There are many things I have to accept in my life before I move on but it needs to be done!
Yes, we have to accept things first, like with the 6 step programs for alcohol or drug abuse you have to accept that you have a problem first, before you can truly recover.
Thanks Lisa!
True, but I think that recognition is an even earlier step, that must come before acceptance.
Yes you're absolutely right, recognition has to be an earlier step before acceptance. If we can't recognise, we can't accept.
Quotes give us food for thought... something for us to think about, but don't always include 'the whole.'
Acceptance is something I have a very hard time with when it comes to things I've done in the past! One thing I finally realised is, even though I do have to accept certain things it doesn't mean that I have to like them.
Considering I am actually in a program of recovery, I have been hearing about it for a very long time! I know the biggest problem for people is in accepting something they feel they have to agree with.
There are many things I have to accept in my life before I move on but it needs to be done!
Thanks Randy. Yes you're right we will all have to accept things in life before we can move on.
Of course it can be the hardest thing but as you say it needs to be done.