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 ...
Thank you. Yes, you're right. Ann Beattie's quote reminds us not only how quickly time passes, but the moments stick.
That wouldn't be so bad, but the memories aren't always good, and no matter how much times passes, the experiences attached to those memories could have happened yesterday.
Basking in moments, especially beautiful moments, takes me away from the way of things. I usually emerge refreshed, no matter how fleeting that moment was.
I must look like the sculpture of the Thinker when I'm reminiscing in that way.
Very true. The years' passing, seem to wash over me, yet there are moments, good and bad in those years I can never forget.
Thank you. Yes, you're right. Ann Beattie's quote reminds us not only how quickly time passes, but the moments stick.
That wouldn't be so bad, but the memories aren't always good, and no matter how much times passes, the experiences attached to those memories could have happened yesterday.
It's why we need to deal with anything painful.
Basking in moments, especially beautiful moments, takes me away from the way of things. I usually emerge refreshed, no matter how fleeting that moment was.
I must look like the sculpture of the Thinker when I'm reminiscing in that way.
Sounds good to me. Yes of course, and I love that Tim. I hope those are plentiful. You deserve them.
Beautiful moments are to savour. In 2022, if they are there, they tend to be fleeting, replaced with harsh realities of pandemic life.