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 ...
Thanks. Yes, I think you could even take this one step further. It's got to the stage where people are not satisfied with anything.
If people were satisfied with just one thing, there would be something they could work on to make their lives better, their communities and society better. Honestly, the world is in dire straits and things need to change and fast.
I know that a whole lot of stuff cannot give me fulfillment, especially if I lose my soul obtaining it. I think that is the best way to achieve inner poverty.
Thank goodness I became aware of this at a very young age.
Thanks Tim. Yes, there is a lesson in there for all of us.
Many of us in our lifetime, will sell our souls to the highest bidder, thinking we'll reach great heights in doing so. True fulfilment is something that happens through the soul.
Wow, what a great quote. In one simple, but powerful sentence it sums up what is wrong with the world.
Thanks. Yes, I think you could even take this one step further. It's got to the stage where people are not satisfied with anything.
If people were satisfied with just one thing, there would be something they could work on to make their lives better, their communities and society better. Honestly, the world is in dire straits and things need to change and fast.
I know that a whole lot of stuff cannot give me fulfillment, especially if I lose my soul obtaining it. I think that is the best way to achieve inner poverty.
Thank goodness I became aware of this at a very young age.
Thanks Tim. Yes, there is a lesson in there for all of us.
Many of us in our lifetime, will sell our souls to the highest bidder, thinking we'll reach great heights in doing so. True fulfilment is something that happens through the soul.