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.
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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, if we continue to look through a positive lens then everything we look at will be positive, in the same way the more you praise and celebrate your life, the more you'll find to celebrate.
I believe Oprah is right, but we must be in a position where we're seeing our lives positively.
Whether the glass is half empty or half full, there's always something to celebrate. But when the enemy is us, we tend see our lives from a pessimistic point of view.
So we need to realize how many mountaintops we've climbed and celebrate.
I love your positivity Tim and your half full attitude to life. You're right on both scores. It's important we understand how many mountaintops we've climbed and celebrate those.
If it's true that we choose how happy we are, then this quote sums it up nicely.
Thanks. Yes, if we continue to look through a positive lens then everything we look at will be positive, in the same way the more you praise and celebrate your life, the more you'll find to celebrate.
I believe Oprah is right, but we must be in a position where we're seeing our lives positively.
Whether the glass is half empty or half full, there's always something to celebrate. But when the enemy is us, we tend see our lives from a pessimistic point of view.
So we need to realize how many mountaintops we've climbed and celebrate.
I love your positivity Tim and your half full attitude to life. You're right on both scores. It's important we understand how many mountaintops we've climbed and celebrate those.
Sadly, we tend to work the opposite way.