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 ...
Health was the last thing on my mind when I was a young man. That's why I think it's important to teach children to eat healthy at an early age, good eating habits carry into adulthood.
Mental health is crucially important too, but our governments fall well short in providing just basic mental health services.
A great little quote. Our health is everything. As Tim says, unfortunately we are not really taught how important a healthy lifestyle is. It is something we take for granted, until we get a warning (if we're lucky) or it's too late.
A relative once said to me, there is no point being the wealthiest man in the cemetery!
Yes thank you; it's a great quote and so true. Our health is worth more than amy amount of money.
Our health is everything until we don't have it, you're right. It's a human failing I feel. Nothing in life should ever be taken for granted. We become too complacent, too cocky; or think that things, will never happen to us. They normally happen to someone else.
Neglecting oneself is a form of abuse.I'm not sure how many of us ever equate that into our thinking, but it's true.
Health was the last thing on my mind when I was a young man. That's why I think it's important to teach children to eat healthy at an early age, good eating habits carry into adulthood.
Mental health is crucially important too, but our governments fall well short in providing just basic mental health services.
Thanks Tim. Your absolutely right. I think we'd all think and behave differently if we thought about this more.
It all comes as a package.
A great little quote. Our health is everything. As Tim says, unfortunately we are not really taught how important a healthy lifestyle is. It is something we take for granted, until we get a warning (if we're lucky) or it's too late.
A relative once said to me, there is no point being the wealthiest man in the cemetery!
Yes thank you; it's a great quote and so true. Our health is worth more than amy amount of money.
Our health is everything until we don't have it, you're right. It's a human failing I feel. Nothing in life should ever be taken for granted. We become too complacent, too cocky; or think that things, will never happen to us. They normally happen to someone else.
Neglecting oneself is a form of abuse.I'm not sure how many of us ever equate that into our thinking, but it's true.