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 ...
Absolutely right irrespective of who we are and where we've come from, we occupy the same space and time and should face all problems together as one society, not create more through division and oppression.
Yes, we're all in the same boat; what affects one affects us all in one way or another. That's why I appreciate this forum, to hear from different people, each with their own set of experiences to help contribute to the development of the people on that boat.
The soul has no color, sex or human affliction and I refuse to separate myself from anyone just because they don't look like me.
In America, the land of many immigrants, I can truly understand what he's saying. Being a first generation American, my mother came here from another country.
She became a naturalized citizen in 1978, she really had to study to pass the test. Speaking English to her is a bit tough, but she gets her point across eventually (sometimes it takes her a bit to understand if the story is long).
But yes, we agree we're all in the same boat. Working to help our families and making a place for ourselves to call our own. She has realized the dream she had, to come here and be able to fend for herself (without the help of my father) which is truly a feat in and of itself.
Ditto on your thoughts Maria. Yes we're all in the same boat. It's a shame not many of us recognise that fact. We'd be better off emotionally if we did.
Absolutely right irrespective of who we are and where we've come from, we occupy the same space and time and should face all problems together as one society, not create more through division and oppression.
Good quote.
Ditto on your thoughts. Thank you.
I absolutely agree! We maybe different in color and origins and the way we speak, but we are all human.
Thanks Lisa!
Yes, we're all in the same boat; what affects one affects us all in one way or another. That's why I appreciate this forum, to hear from different people, each with their own set of experiences to help contribute to the development of the people on that boat.
The soul has no color, sex or human affliction and I refuse to separate myself from anyone just because they don't look like me.
Thanks Tim!! Yes I feel the same way because we are all the same, but unfortunately I'm not sure in our reality, life works that way.
When it comes down to it, Society; religion; class and culture has segregated us instead.
As human beings we all have the same amount of worth. Being rich doesn't make you more valuable then an individual that has less monetary wealth.
After all we all come from the same race... Human.
Ditto on your thoughts. Thanks Maria.
In America, the land of many immigrants, I can truly understand what he's saying. Being a first generation American, my mother came here from another country.
She became a naturalized citizen in 1978, she really had to study to pass the test. Speaking English to her is a bit tough, but she gets her point across eventually (sometimes it takes her a bit to understand if the story is long).
But yes, we agree we're all in the same boat. Working to help our families and making a place for ourselves to call our own. She has realized the dream she had, to come here and be able to fend for herself (without the help of my father) which is truly a feat in and of itself.
Ditto on your thoughts Maria. Yes we're all in the same boat. It's a shame not many of us recognise that fact. We'd be better off emotionally if we did.