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 ...
We experience the world the way we want to see it.
We have a choice, which is why no matter how similar our experiences may be, in a self-prophesying way, we will always interpret things the way we see them, unless we choose to change it.
Thanks. Yes, I think your first paragraph sums up your blog beautifully and would be correct.
Yes, shamefully that is what we do, unless we stand back and deal with our issues. I believe we must. Everything we do comes about through a thought process that we are in control of.
I'm not sure how many people truly understand that concept. Being angry and irritable is part of that process for sure and both must be addressed.
Thanks Tim. Yes, quite. Sadly, I do too. But having anxiety is no excuse for how we view or see the world. We must work to change the anxiety we feel.
Anxiety can be relentless when we're also dealing with stress. Anxiety will affect us differently, but I believe it's something we must continue to work on.
We experience the world the way we want to see it.
We have a choice, which is why no matter how similar our experiences may be, in a self-prophesying way, we will always interpret things the way we see them, unless we choose to change it.
Thanks. Yes, I think your first paragraph sums up your blog beautifully and would be correct.
Yes, shamefully that is what we do, unless we stand back and deal with our issues. I believe we must. Everything we do comes about through a thought process that we are in control of.
I'm not sure how many people truly understand that concept. Being angry and irritable is part of that process for sure and both must be addressed.
It's unfortunate that some people use a thin layer of common sense and contaminate the world just by the way they view it.
With anxiety, I watch this play out on the world stage everyday.
Thanks Tim. Yes, quite. Sadly, I do too. But having anxiety is no excuse for how we view or see the world. We must work to change the anxiety we feel.
Anxiety can be relentless when we're also dealing with stress. Anxiety will affect us differently, but I believe it's something we must continue to work on.