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. Where you say, 'we must do good to be good.' That's absolutely right. This is the universal way, although sadly, it's not always how it's played out.
As a child, I didn't understand the concept fully, but these beliefs were part of my unconscious thinking.
My lifestyle and blog are all testament to those beliefs.
Interesting, something to really ponder. I guess there are other things lurking around my soul.
Thanks Tim. Yes, it's all about the soul. Just because we're against something that isn't good, doesn't make us good in other areas of our life.
And you're right. It all starts with the soul. The soul is an imprint of our thoughts and what we put out there.
I agree, being passively against something isn't enough. We must have a voice and for it to be heard. We must do good to be good.
Thanks. Where you say, 'we must do good to be good.' That's absolutely right. This is the universal way, although sadly, it's not always how it's played out.
As a child, I didn't understand the concept fully, but these beliefs were part of my unconscious thinking.
My lifestyle and blog are all testament to those beliefs.