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: “When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.” TULI KUPFERBERG Tuli Kupferberg is known for challenging convention and encouraging independent thought. His work celebrates creativity, curiosity, and questioning the status quo. His quote reminds us that real change often begins when we step beyond familiar habits and dare to think differently.
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 ...
Perhaps that all depends if there is something we need to change. Sadly, not everyone will wake up. A form of waking up is realising we do have things that we need to change. How many of us realistically get to that stage.
Often we some others as those who need to change, but never ourselves. In my own case, I was aware, I was just never in a position to be able to do anything about it. There is a difference.
There is no need to change if we wake up, but I have both awoken and changed many times.
Perhaps that all depends if there is something we need to change. Sadly, not everyone will wake up. A form of waking up is realising we do have things that we need to change. How many of us realistically get to that stage.
Often we some others as those who need to change, but never ourselves. In my own case, I was aware, I was just never in a position to be able to do anything about it. There is a difference.