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 ...
Thanks Tim. I wonder how many people ever do too. I also agree with you that our adventure is written prior to our conception, but that we're not always aware.
It's taken me a long while. I couldn't imagine all of those years ago, that I would be doing what I'm doing now with The CP Diary. I think we must watch our lives unfold to some extent. I believe our purpose is often there, we just don't always see that it is.
I also agree with this quote; some of our adventures we've already had and there are many more that we can cultivate ourselves if we just set our minds to it.
We all have adventures yet to come, we just need to have patience and wait for them to happen.
Thanks Lisa. I agree… and sometimes we also have to make them happen. They are all within us. We all have the ability, we just need the confidence.
Our adventure was probably written prior to our conception. We're born with a purpose. I don't believe we are put on this earth to simply exist.
In a sense, we are lonely strangers to ourselves until we discover that greatest adventure within us; I wonder how many people ever do.
Thanks Tim. I wonder how many people ever do too. I also agree with you that our adventure is written prior to our conception, but that we're not always aware.
It's taken me a long while. I couldn't imagine all of those years ago, that I would be doing what I'm doing now with The CP Diary. I think we must watch our lives unfold to some extent. I believe our purpose is often there, we just don't always see that it is.
As I believe that we are masters of our own destiny; I agree wholeheartedly with this quote.
I agree with it too. Yes our greatest adventure is definitely written inside of us.
I also agree with this quote; some of our adventures we've already had and there are many more that we can cultivate ourselves if we just set our minds to it.
I agree. Thanks Maria.