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 ...
Freedom isn't something that I know a whole lot about but I'm trying to get used to it. I have spent most of my life trying to make everyone else happy, by following their rules and living the way they wanted me to live.
I have such a hard time letting things go for that reason, but I did enjoy the freedom of giving away pretty much a whole pallet of gelato for free, since it was going to melt. Very long story but suffice to say that it was quite the experience.
It's pretty amazing to see how people react when you're giving away something for free. It was just nice for a change to be able to give it away for free seeing as that wasn't how I was raised, and most other people would have wanted to sell it.
Thanks Randy. You should be pleased you could do that. I have picked up on the fact that it wasn't how you were brought up, and you changed that.
Another reason to be pleased. I think it's important to put other people first, although it's also important not to neglect ourselves.
It's good to have the freedom to choose. Our biggest lessons from our parents Randy is changing what we've had, if those things weren't right, to what we know is right.
You made other people happy. You can't put a price on that.
Freedom permeates every aspect of the human condition and is indeed as important a goal as happiness. I don't believe you can have one without the other.
We should always disregard things beyond our control. That is a road, sure to lead to unhappiness.
Freedom isn't something that I know a whole lot about but I'm trying to get used to it. I have spent most of my life trying to make everyone else happy, by following their rules and living the way they wanted me to live.
I have such a hard time letting things go for that reason, but I did enjoy the freedom of giving away pretty much a whole pallet of gelato for free, since it was going to melt. Very long story but suffice to say that it was quite the experience.
It's pretty amazing to see how people react when you're giving away something for free. It was just nice for a change to be able to give it away for free seeing as that wasn't how I was raised, and most other people would have wanted to sell it.
Thanks Randy. You should be pleased you could do that. I have picked up on the fact that it wasn't how you were brought up, and you changed that.
Another reason to be pleased. I think it's important to put other people first, although it's also important not to neglect ourselves.
It's good to have the freedom to choose. Our biggest lessons from our parents Randy is changing what we've had, if those things weren't right, to what we know is right.
You made other people happy. You can't put a price on that.
Freedom permeates every aspect of the human condition and is indeed as important a goal as happiness. I don't believe you can have one without the other.
We should always disregard things beyond our control. That is a road, sure to lead to unhappiness.
Thanks. You're right, but it's shameful it doesn't happen. We must all come together and allow each other to have those freedoms.
Freedom is about the right to choose. My experiences show otherwise. Across the board, it is back to basics on this one.