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 ...
'Normal' is a setting on a washing machine, as they say in the AA program. My life has always been anything but normal, so what people are going through now is what my life has been like all along, so I'm used to it.
It seems people are totally losing their minds over this, but the uncertainty is what I have had deal with for most of my life. The reality is that it will blow over eventually, but people need to do the right thing.
Praying for the best but as usual, preparing for the worst.
Thanks Randy. Yes, praying for the best also, not giving up on thinking positive about it.
And you're right, I also believe we will come through this and it will blow over, but as you say people need to do the right thing for it to blow over.
I am sure as much as I can be, that if people did the right thing, we'd be further forward with it now.
The more people don't, the more it will continue to claim its lives.
I can't argue with that, but I'm not so sure what normal will look like. It certainly wont be the same normal as before but a new normal.
Thank you. Well, a different normal is good. It's a new normal certainly, but eventually it will become 'normal as we know it.'
It's what we need. We also need to know we can achieve it, it's quotes like this that remind us there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
We must be proactive and act responsibly, to get to 'our new normal.'
'Normal' is a setting on a washing machine, as they say in the AA program. My life has always been anything but normal, so what people are going through now is what my life has been like all along, so I'm used to it.
It seems people are totally losing their minds over this, but the uncertainty is what I have had deal with for most of my life. The reality is that it will blow over eventually, but people need to do the right thing.
Praying for the best but as usual, preparing for the worst.
Thanks Randy. Yes, praying for the best also, not giving up on thinking positive about it.
And you're right, I also believe we will come through this and it will blow over, but as you say people need to do the right thing for it to blow over.
I am sure as much as I can be, that if people did the right thing, we'd be further forward with it now.
The more people don't, the more it will continue to claim its lives.