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 ...
Exactly. We are here to experience and grow. What material things we acquire along the way are wholly unimportant and irrelevant.
Unfortunately our entire society and culture works on the premise of consumerism and that simply creates terrible personal difficulties and cultivates irresponsibility.
Thanks. Yes you're right; I would just add that consumerism will always add to our insecurities. We have come to believe that if we engage in consumerism, we will feel better, but that's not the case.
Retail therapy only does us good for a short while then we continue to struggle. We must get down to and deal with our insecurities, the route cause of our insecurities.
As you say we are here to experience and grow, not to acquire things.
The person who dies with the most toys win; that's what most people in our society seem to think. We work to contribute and we receive compensation for that.
Brad said it brilliantly and I could read his response over and over again.
Exactly. We are here to experience and grow. What material things we acquire along the way are wholly unimportant and irrelevant.
Unfortunately our entire society and culture works on the premise of consumerism and that simply creates terrible personal difficulties and cultivates irresponsibility.
Thanks. Yes you're right; I would just add that consumerism will always add to our insecurities. We have come to believe that if we engage in consumerism, we will feel better, but that's not the case.
Retail therapy only does us good for a short while then we continue to struggle. We must get down to and deal with our insecurities, the route cause of our insecurities.
As you say we are here to experience and grow, not to acquire things.
The person who dies with the most toys win; that's what most people in our society seem to think. We work to contribute and we receive compensation for that.
Brad said it brilliantly and I could read his response over and over again.
Do we really win? I'm not sure we do. I believe we lose more than we gain through our inability to grow, both emotionally and spiritually.
That's what life is really about, not how many toys we can accrue.