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.
Food for thought: "I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about ...
Something inspirational: “Anyone can learn to fight. Hardly anyone learns to think.” TAMSYN MUIR, Gideon the Ninth Muir's quote reminds us that fighting is not just about physical strength; it can mean arguing, resisting ...
Food for thought: “All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you.” OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, Parable of the Sower This quote reminds us that everything we do has an impact, and every experience changes ...
Thanks Lisa. Yes we will have everything and not need or want for anything when we give up the need for us to have luxuries in our life. You're right, we make ourselves poor when we feel we need to hold on to or have worldly possessions.
It's a different kind of thinking but I believe it works.
Thanks Tim. Yes being rich has its pitfalls, but it very much depends on the person. To put wealth before anything else doesn't say much about that person.
I would say the person with least toys win. We should be rich in our minds irrespective of how deep our pockets are.
Great quote. I couldn't agree more with this. Life's not about having the biggest or the best or the most; it's about our happiness and how we treat people.
There is a world of difference between having what we want and having what we need.
I agree with this. To have everything we need to survive and just be happy with that is great. People make themselves poor.
When they have money they're always wanting more; so they think because they can't afford everything they want they are poor.
Thanks Lisa. Yes we will have everything and not need or want for anything when we give up the need for us to have luxuries in our life. You're right, we make ourselves poor when we feel we need to hold on to or have worldly possessions.
It's a different kind of thinking but I believe it works.
I couldn't agree with this statement more. Many people subscribe to this notion that people who have the most toys win.
A very rich actor once said; he'll never know if a woman truly loved him or loved his wealth.
Thanks Tim. Yes being rich has its pitfalls, but it very much depends on the person. To put wealth before anything else doesn't say much about that person.
I would say the person with least toys win. We should be rich in our minds irrespective of how deep our pockets are.
Great quote. I couldn't agree more with this. Life's not about having the biggest or the best or the most; it's about our happiness and how we treat people.
There is a world of difference between having what we want and having what we need.
I couldn't agree with you more. I have nothing more to add!