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 ...
Indeed the choice is ours, but not many of us realise it, let alone take steps to make positive changes to achieve it.
Your quote sounds a bit like a New Year resolution but I see no harm in that.
Yes, there is no right or wrong time to want to turn the page, write a new chapter or even a new verse.
Some of us will use the beginning of the year, some of us will talk about it and a year later will still be talking about it.
But ultimately the choice is ours. Everything I put out there is a food for thought, to be used accordingly.
I love this quote. It reminds me to find that side of me I haven't met yet and to keep moving forward until I do.
Thanks Tim. I'm routing for you. Over the years, perhaps you've met some but not all of you.
There is one thing for sure, we will spend a lifetime getting to know ourselves. But we must give ourselves that chance.