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 ...
That is absolutely true as long as we save ourselves first. I know people who try to save others first without having worked on themselves first.
Sadly, although that works temporarily, it doesn't work in the longer term. You're spot on with your thinking Tim. If the soul is strong and secure and happy, we are. Then we can help and save others.
I agree. We alone are responsible for our own actions and will ultimately answer for those actions.
Thanks, yes you're right. This analogy also applies to my previous blog, 'the right thing to do.' We must. No one's off the hook.
This is true. But we also save ourselves by saving others, our souls stay happy that way. And of course, having faith beyond this world.
That is absolutely true as long as we save ourselves first. I know people who try to save others first without having worked on themselves first.
Sadly, although that works temporarily, it doesn't work in the longer term. You're spot on with your thinking Tim. If the soul is strong and secure and happy, we are. Then we can help and save others.