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 Tim. Your responses are absolutely spot on. You're right, looking through a single window will only give you a single view.
But it is important we find ways to broaden our knowledge and horizons even when looking through a single window. I use my intuition and that works for me.
We also need to learn to open our minds to new learning, even if it's not through our intuition.
A single window will almost always give you a single view. You will look at your life from that angle, as narrow as it is.
Of course, every once in a while I get worried that I interpret quotes the wrong way.
Thanks Tim. Your responses are absolutely spot on. You're right, looking through a single window will only give you a single view.
But it is important we find ways to broaden our knowledge and horizons even when looking through a single window. I use my intuition and that works for me.
We also need to learn to open our minds to new learning, even if it's not through our intuition.