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 ...
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.