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 ...
Thanks Lisa. I agree with you that if our past is something we are struggling with, looking backwards will always cause us grief, but if we can look back and learn from our past, then it will have served its purpose.
We have to make sure though we don't stay living in the past.
I like this quote. Looking back at things sometimes brings nostalgia if it is a good time in the past.
Funny thing is that most of the times we look back, it is something troubling to us. But when I do that, I always say "that's the past, now let's look to the future."
Thanks Maria. You're absolutely right. I think when we look at the past and can say, "that's the past now let's look at the future," in a way we're telling ourselves it's okay to move on.
By recognising what's past we also allow ourselves to move on.
The past is one of my greatest teachers; I am loyal to it, it follows me wherever I go and it prepares me for the future. I look at the past as a tool for growth, I would move aimlessly without it.
I squeeze a little wisdom from the past, I just don't stay there.
If we keep looking back on our lives, we will never be able to go forward. Looking back sometimes just causes us grief.
Thanks Lisa. I agree with you that if our past is something we are struggling with, looking backwards will always cause us grief, but if we can look back and learn from our past, then it will have served its purpose.
We have to make sure though we don't stay living in the past.
I like this quote. Looking back at things sometimes brings nostalgia if it is a good time in the past.
Funny thing is that most of the times we look back, it is something troubling to us. But when I do that, I always say "that's the past, now let's look to the future."
Thanks Maria. You're absolutely right. I think when we look at the past and can say, "that's the past now let's look at the future," in a way we're telling ourselves it's okay to move on.
By recognising what's past we also allow ourselves to move on.
I like this quote too; very true. We can learn from the past but it is just that... it's gone and we have to look forward.
The past is one of my greatest teachers; I am loyal to it, it follows me wherever I go and it prepares me for the future. I look at the past as a tool for growth, I would move aimlessly without it.
I squeeze a little wisdom from the past, I just don't stay there.
Thanks Tim. I completely agree with you. Without using our past as a tool; I agree we would aimlessly move forward without it.
The past is our connection to the present and the future.
Thank you... yes we do. We must if we are to make something of ourselves and of our life.