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 ...
Gossip flows freely enough without giving people something to gossip about. That's way I make it a point to reveal just enough to be present but not invisible.
It's the mystery that keeps you relevant sometimes.
Thanks Tim. I agree, absolutely. I also think it helps to be mysterious. It not only keeps us relevant as you suggest, but keeps people interested too.
You have to give only so much information. Then you keep the mystery going; it holds true for movie stars and for every day people too. Keeps us relevant and everyone loves a mystery.
Thanks Maria. I agree. Yes we become more intriguing to the other person, the less they know about us, the more they want to know and will usually stop at nothing until they do.
I like this quote. It reminds of the saying that it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people guess if you are an idiot, than to open it and confirm it.
Thanks. Yes I remember the quote, but whether we open our mouths or not, there would be no reason for anyone to think we're an idiot, unless they already think we are.
Unfortunately we seem to be preoccupied with forming an opinion about people too soon, regardless of what we say and how we say it.
Gossip flows freely enough without giving people something to gossip about. That's way I make it a point to reveal just enough to be present but not invisible.
It's the mystery that keeps you relevant sometimes.
Thanks Tim. I agree, absolutely. I also think it helps to be mysterious. It not only keeps us relevant as you suggest, but keeps people interested too.
You have to give only so much information. Then you keep the mystery going; it holds true for movie stars and for every day people too. Keeps us relevant and everyone loves a mystery.
Thanks Maria. I agree. Yes we become more intriguing to the other person, the less they know about us, the more they want to know and will usually stop at nothing until they do.
I like this quote. It reminds of the saying that it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people guess if you are an idiot, than to open it and confirm it.
Thanks. Yes I remember the quote, but whether we open our mouths or not, there would be no reason for anyone to think we're an idiot, unless they already think we are.
Unfortunately we seem to be preoccupied with forming an opinion about people too soon, regardless of what we say and how we say it.