Ilana Estelle

Position:

Author & Writer

Awards / Certifications:

  • Dip. Counselling (OCODL)
  • Dip. Diet and Nutrition (Distinction) (OCODL)
  • Dip. Nutritional Therapy (Distinction) (OCODL)
  • S.N.H.S. Dip. (Stress Management)
  • S.N.H.S. Dip. (Psychotherapy & Counselling)

About the author:

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.

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Blogs by Ilana Estelle

Date 9 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

The CP Diary: Understanding Lived Experience

A Space for Reflection, Accountability and Shared Awareness The CP Diary exists to take responsibility, state facts, and seek understanding through lived experience – offering…
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Date 8 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

What Was Never Ours to Hold

On Growing Up Within Stories That Were Never Fully Mine We don’t just grow up with our own experiences – we grow up inside the…
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Date 7 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Omar Delawar

Something inspirational: “We come into this world with nothing and leave this world with nothing. Everything that happens between life and death becomes experience for…
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Date 6 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Cerebral Palsy and Undiagnosed Autism

Living Without Understanding I grew up with cerebral palsy. That was known. What wasn’t known was autism. I lived with both, but only one had…
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Date 5 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Healing Isn't Linear: But It Matters Everyday

Pause and Check In With Yourself Mental health isn’t something you fix once, and walk away from. It’s a daily, ongoing practice, one that shifts…
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Date 4 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Where My Focus Goes

Making Sense of a Life that Felt Harder Than it Needed To Be The hardest part for me, living with something I didn’t know I…
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Date 3 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Another Lewis Carroll quote

Something inspirational: "If you don't know where you're going, any road can take you there." LEWIS CARROLL, The Cheshire Cat
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Date 2 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

The Mirror of Healing: A Shift in Perspective

When Others Reflect Our Growth There is a powerful truth in the idea that unhealed parts of us can sometimes see the healed parts of…
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Date 1 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

When Silence Is All You Were Taught

Silence as a Learned Response, Not a Chosen One The silent treatment isn’t always a choice. Sometimes, it’s the only language someone knows. For many,…
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Date 31 March 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Something inspirational: “Earth's crammed with heaven... But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.” ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Aurora Leigh This is an inspirational quote…
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Date 30 March 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

How Everyday Actions Shape a More Understanding World

Why Awareness, Empathy, and Intentional Choices Matter More Than You Think Awareness is the beginning. Healing is the turning point. But action is where change…
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Date 29 March 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Italian Spinach and Ricotta Pie with Eggs

Italian Spinach and Ricotta Pie with Eggs "Recipe adapted from bbc.co.uk" Ingredients: For the pie Butter, for greasing 2 tbsp plain flour, for dusting 6…
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