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 Randy. Sadly, you're not the only one with the 'family issue.' I remember watching a documentary on family and why the professor narrating the series said in general families 'don't work.'
This isn't just something you struggle with, But also there are families who can get 'the family thing' right. It is not beyond us.
Covid-19 is one of our greatest lessons. The scientists are telling us we have the pandemic, because we have chosen to overlook many things. Things that have consequences. It is time to evaluate.
They say blood is thicker than water, but I wouldn't know since I've never had that relationship with my family.
The only people who have really enjoyed being a part of my life are members of AA, who I have known for a very long time.
It would be great to have a lot more friends so I could have that kind of social circle that most people already have with their family.
Thanks Randy. Sadly, you're not the only one with the 'family issue.' I remember watching a documentary on family and why the professor narrating the series said in general families 'don't work.'
This isn't just something you struggle with, But also there are families who can get 'the family thing' right. It is not beyond us.
Covid-19 is one of our greatest lessons. The scientists are telling us we have the pandemic, because we have chosen to overlook many things. Things that have consequences. It is time to evaluate.