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. Yes, you're right, and from different places. Spiritual growth also isn't something you always understand straight away, but it's something that once you 'get' it's with you for life.
It very much is a lifelong learning. Once you start the 'spiritual journey,' it's something you continue. Do you ever stop learning about what it means?
Personally, I don't think you do. I am still learning and I started my own spiritual path as a child.
Thanks. Yes, it is particularly sad when 'earthly traits' become more important than any spiritual ones.
But I'm not sure how many genuinely don't understand how to grasp spirituality and its concepts, or how many people don't want it to be a part of their lives.
The cosmos, everything we live and breath is through spirituality. Incorporating values into your life that helps you and others take their next step is also part of that.
We and the world would benefit from its teachings. As it stands we are more divided and divisive than we are together.
The pandemic also shows a 'nasty side' to us that has never been apparent before, and it is impacting us and our relationships greatly and not for the positive.
'Many are simply not open to learning' - agree. Yes, this is what needs to change and my website is a good place to start.
Spiritual growth comes to us from awkward angles sometimes.
The thing is, we have to stare at it for a while before we truly get it.
Thanks Tim. Yes, you're right, and from different places. Spiritual growth also isn't something you always understand straight away, but it's something that once you 'get' it's with you for life.
It very much is a lifelong learning. Once you start the 'spiritual journey,' it's something you continue. Do you ever stop learning about what it means?
Personally, I don't think you do. I am still learning and I started my own spiritual path as a child.
Life is a learning process, yet it becomes a waste when we leave without learning those lessons. Many are simply not open to learning.
This site teaches you the value of life's lessons and the importance of humility along the way.
Thanks. Yes, it is particularly sad when 'earthly traits' become more important than any spiritual ones.
But I'm not sure how many genuinely don't understand how to grasp spirituality and its concepts, or how many people don't want it to be a part of their lives.
The cosmos, everything we live and breath is through spirituality. Incorporating values into your life that helps you and others take their next step is also part of that.
We and the world would benefit from its teachings. As it stands we are more divided and divisive than we are together.
The pandemic also shows a 'nasty side' to us that has never been apparent before, and it is impacting us and our relationships greatly and not for the positive.
'Many are simply not open to learning' - agree. Yes, this is what needs to change and my website is a good place to start.