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 ...
It is pretty amazing how much of a difference that can make in your daily living and even life itself.
I need to remember to start doing that every morning, since I usually wake up with a bad attitude like I did this morning. I end up wasting the day dwelling on everything that I can't change.
It doesn't take a lot to change my attitude, but there are days when I just want to wallow in the pity pot. I know for me it's a hard habit to break, considering that I have been doing it for most of my life.
It would be great not to feel like life sucks all the time since I know it doesn't, and there is a lot I can do to make it better.
Thanks Randy. 'It would be great not to feel like life sucks all the time since I know it doesn't, and there is a lot I can do to make it better.'
You said it Randy. Yes, it's easy to follow the same negative patterns, more difficult to change, but just think how much better you'll feel when things go the way you want because you're being positive and not negative.
Before you get out of bed, take a moment to think about how you can make your new day better. I believe you can. I believe we all can. It's about altering our attitude. Change that and we can change certain aspects of our life.
It very much depends on who you're dealing with and whether you can take back control. There are some circumstances, for example if you're dealing with a narcissist where that would be impossible to do.
I do think it depends on our circumstances. I know for myself my life could never have been any different. I know I could never have changed anything, and I have reconciled that.
Healing begins when we let go of the things we know we couldn't change rather than try to tell ourselves we could have. If you could have your life will have worked out differently.
Thanks Tim. Yes, I agree. The more positive and upbeat we are, the more positive the outcome and even if the outcome isn't positive, the better our attitude.
If we were to have more bad days than good, I think we'd struggle. I love that you're a positive person most of the time. It's a good way to be.
It is pretty amazing how much of a difference that can make in your daily living and even life itself.
I need to remember to start doing that every morning, since I usually wake up with a bad attitude like I did this morning. I end up wasting the day dwelling on everything that I can't change.
It doesn't take a lot to change my attitude, but there are days when I just want to wallow in the pity pot. I know for me it's a hard habit to break, considering that I have been doing it for most of my life.
It would be great not to feel like life sucks all the time since I know it doesn't, and there is a lot I can do to make it better.
Thanks Randy. 'It would be great not to feel like life sucks all the time since I know it doesn't, and there is a lot I can do to make it better.'
You said it Randy. Yes, it's easy to follow the same negative patterns, more difficult to change, but just think how much better you'll feel when things go the way you want because you're being positive and not negative.
Before you get out of bed, take a moment to think about how you can make your new day better. I believe you can. I believe we all can. It's about altering our attitude. Change that and we can change certain aspects of our life.
If there is anything we can change it is our attitude to people and things and with that we get control, something that I lacked for many years.
I wish I had learned to take that control a long time ago.
It very much depends on who you're dealing with and whether you can take back control. There are some circumstances, for example if you're dealing with a narcissist where that would be impossible to do.
I do think it depends on our circumstances. I know for myself my life could never have been any different. I know I could never have changed anything, and I have reconciled that.
Healing begins when we let go of the things we know we couldn't change rather than try to tell ourselves we could have. If you could have your life will have worked out differently.
It's time to let it go.
I normally receive what I need when I approach life with a good attitude.
But on bad days, my attitude seems controlled by my evil twin, but I'm a fairly positive person most of the time.
Thanks Tim. Yes, I agree. The more positive and upbeat we are, the more positive the outcome and even if the outcome isn't positive, the better our attitude.
If we were to have more bad days than good, I think we'd struggle. I love that you're a positive person most of the time. It's a good way to be.