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: “The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.” IVY BAKER PRIEST An ending can feel like a loss, particularly when we cannot see what lies beyond it ...
Something inspirational: “I’m not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that.” AVA DuVERNAY
Food for thought: “He that flings dirt at another dirties himself most.” THOMAS FULLER This is a good reminder that when we speak badly of others or try to bring someone down, it often says more about us than it does about ...
Wow, I have been doing that for most of my life so I never really knew anything different. It took me a long time to figure out that 'you live what you know.' It's difficult to learn how to do things differently, but I know that it can be done.
I have watched so many other people waste their lives, never truly living and I really don't want to end up being one of them. I watched both of my parents end up in nursing homes suffering to the end.
Thanks Randy. Yes, you're right not to want to go down the same path as your parents. If we're not lucky enough to have positive support, parents will invariably show us 'how not to do things.'
I think that's often more helpful. It teaches us how to change things. An important lesson I feel.
Life can pass right through you before you realize how precious it is.
This quote is a powerful motivator, indeed.
Exactly! Thanks Tim. Yes, life is precious but we take it for granted, or look for bigger and better.
Neither will work long term, nor is it the 'spiritual' way.
Wow, I have been doing that for most of my life so I never really knew anything different. It took me a long time to figure out that 'you live what you know.' It's difficult to learn how to do things differently, but I know that it can be done.
I have watched so many other people waste their lives, never truly living and I really don't want to end up being one of them. I watched both of my parents end up in nursing homes suffering to the end.
I have missed out so much of my life.
Thanks Randy. Yes, you're right not to want to go down the same path as your parents. If we're not lucky enough to have positive support, parents will invariably show us 'how not to do things.'
I think that's often more helpful. It teaches us how to change things. An important lesson I feel.
This reminds of a cartoon I saw last week, which said we don't live once, we die once but we live every day. I guess it's up to us to make sure.
Thanks. Yes, it is up to us to make sure. There is living and there is existing.
How many of us live and how many of us just 'exist' thinking we're living? Food for thought on this one.