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 ...
Thanks. Yes, sadly through having been controlled, I have been the recipient of being 'spoon fed' but in my defence, I gave a lot of that back.
I understand your sentiment, but depending on our circumstances, life doesn't always pan out in a way that helps us move on from being spoon fed.
You got to make your own decisions and although that's not ideal either because you had no boundaries at all, being spoon fed is worse, because you end up living someone else's life.
I think as my case proves, yes whilst we may start out that way, we don't have to continue to live our lives like that. We must do everything we can to make our life, our own.
Great quote, Ilana.
I have never been good with spoon-feeding, either handing it out or receiving it, so I don't have much patience for the feeders, or the recipients.
Thanks. Yes, sadly through having been controlled, I have been the recipient of being 'spoon fed' but in my defence, I gave a lot of that back.
I understand your sentiment, but depending on our circumstances, life doesn't always pan out in a way that helps us move on from being spoon fed.
You got to make your own decisions and although that's not ideal either because you had no boundaries at all, being spoon fed is worse, because you end up living someone else's life.
I think as my case proves, yes whilst we may start out that way, we don't have to continue to live our lives like that. We must do everything we can to make our life, our own.