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 ...
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.