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 believe this. When we change, everything else changes. When we change for the good everything else will get better. Our relationships and our lives.
If we change for the worse things will only get worse. I've changed my life for the best and everything is so much better, especially my relationships and I'm happier with myself.
Thanks Tim. I can only speak from my own experience of course, but I believe there is truth in this quote and can see your side.
As long as our perceptions are positive on the way we do things, we will become more positive, just by its very nature. When we become more positive we will find positive ways to change the things we have to deal with and that should make the outcome more positive.
Even if we can't change everything, with a positive attitude we give ourselves the opportunity to deal with and change things for the positive and it's those positive changes that will change us eventually.
I am not the same person I was all those years ago. Changing myself has changed everything. The hard part is others close to us understanding we've changed and that's not easy for them to deal with.
I believe this. When we change, everything else changes. When we change for the good everything else will get better. Our relationships and our lives.
If we change for the worse things will only get worse. I've changed my life for the best and everything is so much better, especially my relationships and I'm happier with myself.
Thanks Lisa. I believe it too and I agree.
I would agree to disagree that everything will change only if we changed ourselves. I wish it were that simple.
Constructive change in the broadest sense will bring positive results, but it won't change everything.
Thanks Tim. I can only speak from my own experience of course, but I believe there is truth in this quote and can see your side.
As long as our perceptions are positive on the way we do things, we will become more positive, just by its very nature. When we become more positive we will find positive ways to change the things we have to deal with and that should make the outcome more positive.
Even if we can't change everything, with a positive attitude we give ourselves the opportunity to deal with and change things for the positive and it's those positive changes that will change us eventually.
I am not the same person I was all those years ago. Changing myself has changed everything. The hard part is others close to us understanding we've changed and that's not easy for them to deal with.
I agree with this quote. If something isn't working maybe a change in mindset will help.
It will at least give you a sense that you have tried to better something, than to just sit back and expect it to change (which rarely happens).
Thanks Maria. I agree, a different mindset always helps.