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 agree with this quote. The way that I gain wisdom is by experiencing things. It's funny that you can read about things, but you never really grasp a concept until you experience it for yourself.
My wisdom comes from my experiences, observations and the mistakes I've made. It is not true that we are as good as our last move, errors make us wise. But experience doesn't necessarily foster wisdom, especially if we interpret an experience the wrong way; prejudice sometimes blind us.
Perhaps our lack of wisdom is the result of our inability to humble ourselves, not only to our experiences, but to other people’s experiences as well.
Thanks Tim. You've left us with a considerable amount of food for thought today. I agree. Although errors will primarily allow us to learn our lessons so that we can understand life's experiences better and become more wise; some of us will continue to make errors and will fail to understand where and why they've gone wrong.
Wisdom comes from our ability to understand. I think you're right, we will fail to learn and will always miss the signs when we're not grounded or humble enough.
I agree. We learn through experience. I learned this very well while in nursing school. I really didn't become a nurse until I got to work as one and most nurses will say the same thing.
I agree with this quote. The way that I gain wisdom is by experiencing things. It's funny that you can read about things, but you never really grasp a concept until you experience it for yourself.
Thanks Maria. Ditto on your thoughts. I agree.
My wisdom comes from my experiences, observations and the mistakes I've made. It is not true that we are as good as our last move, errors make us wise. But experience doesn't necessarily foster wisdom, especially if we interpret an experience the wrong way; prejudice sometimes blind us.
Perhaps our lack of wisdom is the result of our inability to humble ourselves, not only to our experiences, but to other people’s experiences as well.
Thanks Tim. You've left us with a considerable amount of food for thought today. I agree. Although errors will primarily allow us to learn our lessons so that we can understand life's experiences better and become more wise; some of us will continue to make errors and will fail to understand where and why they've gone wrong.
Wisdom comes from our ability to understand. I think you're right, we will fail to learn and will always miss the signs when we're not grounded or humble enough.
Quite true. A lack of wisdom leads to making mistakes, which if learned from can indeed lead to wisdom.
Thanks. Ditto on your thoughts; absolutely!
I agree. We learn through experience. I learned this very well while in nursing school. I really didn't become a nurse until I got to work as one and most nurses will say the same thing.
Thanks Lisa. Yes I believe so too; we very much learn through our experiences.