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 ...
I often have to wonder about this myself, considering how my life has turned out! I'm more used to the chaos in my life than any semblance of order, like most people seem to have. I didn't have much of a chance to have a normal life, which is why I so often feel disoriented and confused most of the time.
I am trying to achieve some small amount of order in my life as much as I can, to have the stability that I have always lacked. I have to accept that it's okay for me to have a voice and speak out against the things that aren't right for me.
My life will probably never be in the perfect order, but just being OK works for me!
My understanding is that when we actively continue to choose to live the the life we've lived that becomes the order as we continue to live our lives.
If and when we choose to change our circumstances, those new circumstances become the new order. Of course it's only when we look back that we will see everything unfold in the perfect order.
It's not always easy to understand, but knowing how the universe works helps.
Absolutely! It's not something we can always stop, but believe the art is always in our understanding, our understanding of the bigger picture and of our place in the universe.
Thanks Tim. I totally agree. To know and understand how all of this works, allows us to find and accept our place in the universe and what it has in store for us.
As the quote rightly says, things happen in the order they happen, whether we understand it or not. The key is to understand.
That's the thing, we have to understand that our time here is mapped out and the way we spend that time is mapped out too.
Once we accept that things are predetermined; it brings about a degree of acceptance. That way we don't have to understand the whys and the wherefores. We just need to know there is an order to everything.
I often have to wonder about this myself, considering how my life has turned out! I'm more used to the chaos in my life than any semblance of order, like most people seem to have. I didn't have much of a chance to have a normal life, which is why I so often feel disoriented and confused most of the time.
I am trying to achieve some small amount of order in my life as much as I can, to have the stability that I have always lacked. I have to accept that it's okay for me to have a voice and speak out against the things that aren't right for me.
My life will probably never be in the perfect order, but just being OK works for me!
I'm pleased being OK works for you Randy.
My understanding is that when we actively continue to choose to live the the life we've lived that becomes the order as we continue to live our lives.
If and when we choose to change our circumstances, those new circumstances become the new order. Of course it's only when we look back that we will see everything unfold in the perfect order.
It's not always easy to understand, but knowing how the universe works helps.
I think most of us understand that a perfect storm is developing. The evidence is televised; we can feel it and we can see it in plain sight.
Absolutely! It's not something we can always stop, but believe the art is always in our understanding, our understanding of the bigger picture and of our place in the universe.
Yes, I totally agree with your response Ilana. Our place in the Universe is where our souls rest, outside of everything we can possibly imagine.
That's exactly why my soul is not for sale, and I know when people are trying to buy it. It's the perfect order and I understand it.
Thanks Tim. I totally agree. To know and understand how all of this works, allows us to find and accept our place in the universe and what it has in store for us.
As the quote rightly says, things happen in the order they happen, whether we understand it or not. The key is to understand.
That's the thing, we have to understand that our time here is mapped out and the way we spend that time is mapped out too.
Once we accept that things are predetermined; it brings about a degree of acceptance. That way we don't have to understand the whys and the wherefores. We just need to know there is an order to everything.
Yes, I couldn't agree more. Thank you.