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: "I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about ...
Something inspirational: “Anyone can learn to fight. Hardly anyone learns to think.” TAMSYN MUIR, Gideon the Ninth Muir's quote reminds us that fighting is not just about physical strength; it can mean arguing, resisting ...
Food for thought: “All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you.” OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, Parable of the Sower This quote reminds us that everything we do has an impact, and every experience changes ...
I also hope that one day you will feel different about yourself, but depending on what we have to deal with in our lives Randy I am sure you're not alone with your thoughts.
I can relate to that!
I know people like this; that's just the way they are. They have this part of their lives and that part, but put them together and they have a mess.
I couldn't agree with you more Lisa.
I know many people, mostly family members who have some good characteristics in isolation, but when taken as a whole are a nightmare.
I know so may people this describes. Nice in part but as a whole - more than just a puzzle!
I agree.
Yes, sometimes you have to deal with people a piece at at time before you can figure out what the whole is!
Personally I feel like a puzzle with many missing pieces, so I may not ever be fully put back together again. I'm praying that it may one day change.
I also hope that one day you will feel different about yourself, but depending on what we have to deal with in our lives Randy I am sure you're not alone with your thoughts.