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, 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.