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 feel the problem with being stubborn is that we don't always hear what others have to say because we're too stubborn to listen and we're right and they're wrong!
Stubborn people only really agree with their own thought process. Whatever anyone else says is incidental.
What an apt saying for today.
I spent most of yesterday dealing with someone just like that and I have no intention of repeating that experience anytime soon!
I think it in a way the experience makes us stronger. I am sure we could all do without the stress element though!
I think people doubt because of insecurities and want to get all the attention because they are doubting themselves.
Thanks Lisa.
I feel the problem with being stubborn is that we don't always hear what others have to say because we're too stubborn to listen and we're right and they're wrong!
Stubborn people only really agree with their own thought process. Whatever anyone else says is incidental.