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 ...
Creating my own style is a foreign concept seeing as it was never encouraged. I was brainwashed from an early age into thinking that my mission in life was to make others happy, at the complete exclusion of my own needs.
The reality is that you can't help others if they don't want to help themselves. I want to be happy and comfortable in my own skin.
I get you Randy. Anything we're not encouraged to work on as children, will be overlooked by us as adults.
But those things are not something that needs to stay excluded. We can identify with certain aspects of our lives, and use those experiences to identify with ourselves to make the changes we need to make.
Whilst our experiences shape us, through spiritual and emotional growth we can continue to evolve and change and create a new style for ourselves.
Creating my own style is a foreign concept seeing as it was never encouraged. I was brainwashed from an early age into thinking that my mission in life was to make others happy, at the complete exclusion of my own needs.
The reality is that you can't help others if they don't want to help themselves. I want to be happy and comfortable in my own skin.
I get you Randy. Anything we're not encouraged to work on as children, will be overlooked by us as adults.
But those things are not something that needs to stay excluded. We can identify with certain aspects of our lives, and use those experiences to identify with ourselves to make the changes we need to make.
Whilst our experiences shape us, through spiritual and emotional growth we can continue to evolve and change and create a new style for ourselves.